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Sustainability: The Urban Heat Island

ContributorsWittlinger, Sally (Author) / Arizona Indicators (Project) (Publisher) / Morrison Institute for Public Policy (Publisher)
Created2010-01-31
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During the mid-part of the last decade, when the population growth rate was at its highest, the Phoenix area experienced rapid development and urban sprawl. The result has been an intensification of the Urban Heat Island effect. In this edition of Decades, author Sally Wittlinger discusses this uncomfortable consequence of…

During the mid-part of the last decade, when the population growth rate was at its highest, the Phoenix area experienced rapid development and urban sprawl. The result has been an intensification of the Urban Heat Island effect. In this edition of Decades, author Sally Wittlinger discusses this uncomfortable consequence of urbanization.
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Horizon - 2006 (August 22)

ContributorsGrant, Michael, 1951- (Host) / Arreola, Daniel D. (Daniel David), 1950- (Interviewee) / Smith, Melissa Diane (Interviewee) / Public Broadcasting Service (Broadcaster)
Created2006-08-22
DescriptionSegments on census data showing that Phoenix is now one of three big cities in America where minorities are the majority, heightened security at Sky Harbor Airport following a terrorist plot in Great Britain, and Celiac Disease. Guests include Daniel Arreola, ASU Professor of Geography; Paul Blue, Assistant Aviation Director.