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Our rapidly urbanizing desert environment brings increasingly complex and challenging decisions in regard to future urbanization and sustainable societies. Economic developement, a creative workforce, healthy lifestyles and environments, and continued technological innovation are critical components necessary to guide Phoenix towards a desirable future. Greater Phoenix is in the grip of explosive growth.
The region's home county, Maricopa, sits atop the list in United States population growth from 1990 to 2000. given the rate of growth and the diversity of settlements in terms of their history and socioeconomic characteristics, the region is an archetype for studying the sustainablity debate facing urban systems across North America. The preassures of explosive growth in the Phoenix metropolitan region are evident across various urban systems including transportation, water dstribution, and temperature controls.
What is needed is a new approach to urban planning, design, and environmental management. These are the goals of the Digital Phoenix Project. The proposed Digital Phoenix Project at ASU will develop an innovative integrated visualization platform to better understand the impacts of policy choices as they play out in patterns of growth and in the quality of life of Phoenix residents. The Digital Phoenix Project will create a visual planning tool with keen insight into urban dynamics in the Phoenix metropolitan area through the use of state-of-art visualization, computation, and informatics tools, combined with detailed social, economic and environmental data.
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