Community Partnerships
Downtown Phoenix Studios
The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture is exceptionally involved in the development and redevelopment of the heart of Phoenix – its urban downtown core. Studios have performed research into plans for a medical school campus and research building; housing alternatives to provide both market rate and low-income housing; networks of pocket and linear parks, bike paths, connective shade structures, permeable ground surfaces, urban reforestation, and street transformations; community centers for the urban Native American community; ASU Downtown Campus plans; and plans for an urban farmer's market, which were brought to fruition with the hard work of two graduate planning students. Most of these studios have partners with the city of Phoenix, Maricopa County, the Phoenix Community Alliance, the Downtown Phoenix Partnership, or other social and economic service organizations. The Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL) has space that has hosted meetings for nonprofit organizations and state, city, or county officials whose missions are to raise the awareness or increase economic environment through improving the built and natural environment of the downtown area.