Tucson (blue) Phoenix (red) Paris (yellow) with rail systems
2009
Tucson (blue) Phoenix (blue) Farmlands (green) Los Angeles (red)
2009
If Marana become Manhattan Island (red)
2009
Wrigley Field Housing and Streets (red and blue) Dodger Stadium Parking (purple)
2009
If Ikea and its parking (green and yellow) located in Downtown Tucson
2009
Broadway and Country Club with Tennis Court
2009
Downtown Tucson (salmon and orange) IBM (yellow and green)
2009
Sam Hughes Housing (red) Foothills Roads (purple)
2009
Downtown Tucson Buildings (red) Ina and Oracle (cyan)
2009
Barrio Roads (cyan) Vail Roads (blue)
2009
the 20 most populated cities in the United States
the little red arizona represents the combined land area of the 20 most populated cities in the United States. that is 31,000,000 people. there’s a lot of land out there – let’s start developing.
el con mall
el con mall and associated parking lots overlaid on the heart of downtown tucson. what is going on in our head when we say “going to the mall” vs. “going downtown.” the spaces are virtually the same size. (background for non-tucsonans: there have been revitalizing efforts for downtown tucson since the mid-1970s without much perceived success).
national parks
the city of tucson overlaid on yellowstone national park. how would we develop tucson if we thought it were in the middle of an arbitrarily defined national park?
chicago transit authority
the chicago transit system overlaid on the city of tucson. sometimes i feel like our efforts to revitalize downtown tucson with our comparisons to other cities, mean compressing those compared areas into a one square mile area.
la encantada
la encantada mall and associated parking lots overlaid on the heart of downtown tucson. build it, fill it with places to consume goods, and they will come.
paris metro system
the paris metro system overlaid on the city of tucson. the little red “L” represents tucson’s only rail line – a trolley shuttling people from a shopping district to the university of arizona. paris, eat your heart out!
park place mall
park place mall and associated parking lots overlaid on the heart of downtown tucson. if they can revitalize a mall . . .
ny subway system
ny subway system overlaid on the city of tucson.
tucson mall
tucson mall and associated parking lots overlaid on the heart of downtwon tucson. i’ve never heard of people complaining about walking around a parking lot in the mall. (background for non- tucsonans: people complain about the amount of walking one needs to do while downtown tucson).
manhattan
the island of manhattan overlaid on the city of tucson. during the day there is roughly 7,000,000 people in the manhattan area; in tucson, there is roughly 200,000.
typical block
a typical block in tucson overlaid a typical block in manhattan. the red blocks represent building in tucson; the blue represents buildings in manhattan. can we have just a little bit more density in tucson? just a little? please?
disney
disneyland overlaid on
downtown tucson.
urban renewal
the blue aerial was taken in 1967. the yellow and gray represent a convention center built in 1971 in downtown tucson. the red represents all of the buildings demolished from that construction. no comment.
target
the target symbol represents the combined area of all the target shopping centers in the united states as of july 2008; representing 207,540,000 square feet. it actually doesn’t look that big.
target parking
the grey target symbol represents the parking required
for all of their stores. now, that looks big!
7th avenue
this is 7th avenue, a bike route in the city of tucson bike system. the road is so wide, i can fit 189 cars on it in one little stretch.
texas
the little texas floating in the middle of the pacific ocean represents the size of the island of plastic flotsam accumulating somewhere between san francisco and hawaii, known as the “eastern garbage patch.” some say it is twice the size of texas.
go voyager!
the united states interstate system on the planet mars.