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Canalscape Symposium

February 10, 2009 - 7:00pm

Canalscape Symposium

On Friday, I went to the Canalscape Symposium during my lunch break. It was a day-long discussion about making the canals in metro Phoenix a center-piece to our city. I heard about the symposium through a random invitation on Facebook. (Thanks to the person who sent it!) I was a bit surprised that Chris hadn't heard of it since he's taking urban design classes at ASU and ASU sponsored the symposium. Chris also attended for a couple of hours in the morning, but then had to leave for class later in the day. This topic is fascinating to me and I wish I had taken the entire day off work to attend.

While I was there, I only heard a couple of talks. One was by a landscape architect who proposed a number of development projects for more evident intersections of the canal paths with main roadways. For those of you who don't live in Phoenix, canal paths are recreational pathways along side the canals. Typically they are used for walking, running, or biking; however, I get the impression they aren't used enough. The idea was to make the entrance to the canal paths more welcoming. He also spoke about adding more shade structures and water fountains along the paths which would make them more useful in the warmer months.

Model - Solar Screens

The second talk I heard was about how we seemed to have forgotten the fundamentals about sun. The buildings we build have no concern at all for the path of the sun. The gentleman had two models on display which map out the path of the sun (in our region). He wants architects and designers to make buildings which are optimized for the sun so that we use less energy. People want to go from 105 degrees outside to a comfortable 83 degrees inside, which uses a lot of energy. With the use of shades, you create zones of different temperatures which can lower the energy used to cool.

Canalscape Symposium

While I was only able to spend a short amount of time at the symposium, I was very impressed. I'm glad ASU is sponsoring these types of events that will impact my city. And selfishly, I'm really thankful that I got to visit PURL, Phoenix Urban Research Lab. The building is beautiful and just last month I was admiring it when Wayne and I walked by. Getting to be in the building and stand on the balcony I had been admiring felt very fateful.

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