SUN CORRIDOR 2035

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SUN CORRIDOR 2035
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From Copper Belt
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To Sun Corridor
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Arizona 2000 and 2050
Source Maricopa Association of Governments.
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88 of Arizonas Economy
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What is a Megapolitan?
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Urban Spaces and Connections
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Sun Corridor Land Owners
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A Megapolitan Nation
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Realms aredefined by characteristics
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Realms in Perspective
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Realms in Perspective
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Five Megaton Topics

• The megapolitan concept is more than just two
• cities suburbs spilling across each others
  borders.
• Its a combination of land use, commerce, and
• transportation planning that looks at vast areas
  as
• single entities.
• Arizona Republic 2006

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The Trend is Glocal

• Big Fish in Relatively
• Small Ponds
• Phoenix, Tucson,
• and the Sun Corridor
• Lack a Global Profile

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Governance

• The Sun Corridor
• Has Hundreds of
• Players and No
• Ones in Charge

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Two Trillion Dollar Questions

• Can Quality Ever Hope to Compete with Easy Money
  and 50 Years of Tradition?
• Who Will Pay for Public Systems and Spaces?

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What About Water?

• The Oil of the 21st
• Century, Water is
• a Critical, Limited
• Resource

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The Tragedy of the Sunshine
1990-1994
Heat Island
2000-2004
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Do you want to live in the Sun Corridor?
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Steps Ahead

• Educate citizens of the world
• See Sun Corridor as a place
• Make the Sun Corridor a living laboratory

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With support from

• Stardust Foundation
• Arizona Public Service Corporation
• Salt River Project
• Unisource Energy family of companies Tucson
  Electric Power Unisource Energy Services

• www.morrisoninstitute.org