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Alfredo Gutierrez: Urban Growth Of Phoenix, Arizona

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This film is a documentary that focuses on the urban growth in Phoenix, Arizona, and its continuing expansion of the city. The documentary explains how Phoenix is right now the 6th largest city in America and is just continuing to grown and spread across more dessert land. Voices of residents, and government officials are expressed in the video and give insight into the causes and affects influenced in the area. Alfredo Gutierrez who was interviewed in the documentary made and interesting comment about the growth of Phoenix, he stated “As we speak here today, there are thousands of people who are coming here with the same dreams, with the same ambitions. And those folks change this place and change the values and the direction of this place. And it’s still a city …show more content…

Gutierrez opens up the documentary with a strong statement, clearly pointing towards that Phoenix may be growing faster than developers and planners can keep up with. Several planning themes are present in the film; those being urban development and revitalization, land-use planning, environmental planning, and economic influences on the land. It’s highly interesting to see the approaches Phoenix is making to improve the city, many actions that could be implemented in cities across the nation.
The topics discussed in this film greatly pertain to many factors of planning discussed in class. One of those topics being the economic base of urbanization. In the city Phoenix, many private developers are purchasing land and building. They then bring in more business, more real estate and attract middle class citizens to the areas. This helps boost the economic growth of the city. Phoenix is one

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