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- Creators: Pintar, Ivan
- Creators: Battelle Memorial Institute
- Creators: Fish, Paul R.
- Status: Published
Photograph showing buildings under construction at Arcosanti
Photograph showing buildings under construction at Arcosanti
Panorama view of Arcosanti site showing buildings under construction
Panorama view of Arcosanti site showing buildings under construction
Pima County is blessed with a rich and varying record of human settlement over the 11,000 years representing prehistoric, Spanish Colonial, and Mexican-American influences in our history. The County's archaeological site is the building of structure with traditional cultural values and historic landscapes are all nonrenewable cultural resources.
In step with other organizations, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (the Valley’s regional public-private economic development organization) published a comprehensive 10-year economic development strategy that codified its change in direction to quality economic development in aerospace, bio-industry, advanced business and financial services, technology, and software. In early 2004, the Governor’s Council on Innovation and Technology issued Building Arizona’s Knowledge-Based Economy with scores of recommendations on venture capital, higher education, collaboration, workforce development, and other topics. Separately, each of these items would have been notable. Taken together, they demonstrate a strong commitment to the growth of a knowledge economy and to the multifaceted approaches needed to develop it.
Photograph of Earth House, designed by Paolo Soleri in 1956, at Cosanti in Paradise Valley, Arizona
Photograph of swimming pool and Cat-Cast House (built 1965-1966) at Cosanti in Paradise Valley, Arizona
Photograph of swimming pool at Cosanti in Paradise Valley, Arizona showing pool canopy and bronze bell windchimes
Photograph of North Apse, designed by Paolo Soleri in 1964, with bronze bell windchimes at Cosanti in Paradise Valley, Arizona