+/-92: Downtown Tucson Master Plans 1932-2009

Location: Vacant building, downtown Tucson, Arizona

Organization: The Steering Committee of the Planning Division of the City Resources and Studies Unit of the Bureau of UrbanEconomic and Design Office of the City of Tucson

Collaborators: Rachelle Diaz and Julie Ray of Pop-Up Spaces, Kimi Eisele of the Design Co*op

Support: John Wesley Miller Companies, Anne-Marie Russell, Peter Wilke, Epstein Construction, Reproductions, Peter Baer, Josh Schacter, Len Taruscio, Steven Meckler, Leigh Spigelman, Roy Chamberlin, Therese Perreault, Chod McClintock, Pima CountyPlanning Department, City of Tucson Department of Transportation and PARKWISE, Alex Kimmelman, Poster Frost Mirto Associates, BWSArchitects, Bob Vint, Rob Paulus Architects, University ofArizona College of Architecture, Tucson Pima Arts Council, DaveTaylor, J.T. Fey, Wheat Scharf Associates, Donovan Durband, Rebecca Ruopp, Marty McCune, Jerry Kyle, Chris Trumble, Sam Daughety, Katie Rutterer, Rachel Villareal, and Amanda

Worker, Inc., the Design Co*op (Kimi Eisele), and Pop-Up Spaces(Rachelle Diaz and Julie Ray) collaborated in the Fall of 2009 to create the exhibit +/-92: Downtown Tucson Master Plans 1932-2009.The successful exhibit displayed a compilation of over 100Downtown Tucson master plans, comprehensive plans, studies, and projects. The exhibition included realized and unrealized plans authored from the early 20th century to 2009. An interactive timeline presented above the plans assisted viewers to track world events, economic and social trends, and Tucson's history in relationship to plan's origins, realization, or death. This was a rare opportunity to see ALL of the planning for downtown Tucson in one space at one time. Also included in the exhibition were photographs of successful spaces and places that make our downtown unique—some of which were a direct result of planning, some of which were not. Also, a crew of official performing"apparatchiks" were on site to collect public input for current and future downtown master planning, for which there were no funds, of course.