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200246 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.200246 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-05 143 pages Hitzeman, Jordyn Ehlenz, Meagan Jamme, Hue-Tam Barrett, The Honors College Economics Program in CLAS School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences In recent years, there have been extensive discussions and initiatives centered around the need to improve neighborhood park design such that parks fully consider the needs and interests of teenage girls and gender minorities. At the same time, neighborhood park planners and designers in hot desert cities have begun to increasingly prioritize heat adaptation and climate resilience in their designs. However, there has yet to be a meaningful discussion of what designing neighborhood parks for teenage girls and gender minorities looks like in hot desert cities. How do we reconcile the needs and interests of teenage girls and gender minorities with climate resilience when it comes to hot desert city neighborhood park design? To answer this question, I partnered with the Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine council for a two phase participant-lead data collection initiative. Through a literature review, individual survey, and group workshop conducted at a neighborhood park in the Phoenix Metro area, I accomplish two goals: 1. I construct a working understanding of how teenage girls and gender minorities feel and interact with neighborhood parks in Hot Desert Cities, within a Global North context. 2. I develop gender and climate sensitive neighborhood park design recommendations for the Phoenix Metro area. Moreover, I conclude that, in the case of hot desert cities, gender sensitive design is climate sensitive design, and climate sensitive design is gender sensitive design. Gender Planning Urban Mainstreaming Phoenix Urban Design Hot Desert Cities Climate Youth Gender Sensitive Neighborhood Park Planning in a Hot Desert City: An Urban Development Initiative in the Phoenix Metro area