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PHXmuraltour is an app for iPhone and Android that guides users through the plethora of mural art in downtown Phoenix. It can be found and downloaded from iTunes and the Android app store. Before the artists began drawing people downtown for events like First Fridays and ArtDetour during the 1980s, Phoenix was notorious for having a deserted city core. The art community brought life, color and vibrancy to the downtown landscape. The website giving more information about the project can be found at http://kristenhwang.com/PHX-mural-tour.html. This project aims to widen the reach of the mural art in downtown Phoenix. Public art has the unique ability to foster a conversation between people who may not think of themselves as art connoisseurs, but like all kinds of art the message can sometimes be mysterious to passersby. Many of the murals downtown portray Hispanic or Native American themes, make political statements, document historic events and people, or serve as visual spice. They are emblems of the values the downtown community identifies with--values like creativity, enterprise, civic responsibility and diversity. This project hopes to make these messages more prominent to people in downtown Phoenix. It is important for the students, workers, shop owners and residents downtown to have the opportunity to learn more about the mural art because the art community surrounding Roosevelt Row played an integral role in shaping the culture and texture of their daily lives.
ContributorsHwang, Kristen Lee Anne (Author) / Thornton, Leslie (Thesis director) / Dodge, Nancie (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Earth and Space Exploration (Contributor) / Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (Contributor)
Created2014-12
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Located in the Sunbelt of the Southwestern United States, Phoenix Arizona finds itself in one of the hottest, driest places in the world. Thankfully, Phoenix has the Salt River, Gila River, Verde River, and a vast aquifer to meet the water demands of the municipal, industrial, and agricultural sectors. However, rampant groundwater pumping and over-allocation of these water supplies based on unprecedented, high flows of the Colorado River have created challenges for water managers to ensure adequate water supply for the future. Combined with the current 17-year drought and the warming and drying projections of climate change, the future of water availability in Phoenix will depend on the strength of water management laws, educating the public, developing a strong sense of community, and using development to manage population and support sustainability. As the prevalence of agriculture declines in and around Phoenix, a substantial amount of water is saved. Instead of storing this saved water, Phoenix is using it to support further development. Despite uncertainty regarding the abundant and continuous availability of Phoenix's water resources, development has hardly slowed and barely shifted directions to support sustainability. Phoenix was made to grow until it legally cannot expand anymore. In order to develop solutions, we must first understand the push for development in water-stressed Phoenix, Arizona.
ContributorsVasquez, Brianna Nicole (Author) / Heimsath, Arjun (Thesis director) / Whipple, Kelin (Committee member) / School of Earth and Space Exploration (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of Community Resources and Development (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2017-05
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The Phoenix metro area has become increasingly more urbanized over the past few decades, changing the pressures on native lizards to navigate these novel environments. Due to effects such as the Urban Heat Island, decreased vegetation cover, increased temperatures, and general changes in substrate types between environments, urban lizards have a variety of unique environmental pressures acting on them compared to their traditional habitats. In this study, I examined various morphological features in the common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) and the ornate tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) to determine if these novel pressures in urban environments have significantly changed the phenotypic expression of these features as compared to a non-urban environment. The morphological features examined were weight, head length and width, femur, tibia, foot, and toe length, arm, forearm, hand, and finger length, and snout-vent (SVL), tail, and total length, along with various proportional comparisons between related traits. I hypothesized that both common side-blotched lizards and ornate tree lizards would see an increase in mass and snout-vent length, an increase in tail length, and increase in head thickness, and a decrease in limb length in urban environments as compared non-urban environments. It was found that in common-side blotched lizards, while urban individuals tended to be larger in terms of length and mass, their heads tended to be proportionally shorter and thinner than non-urban individuals. In ornate tree-lizards, non-urban individuals were larger in every regard other than SVL. Both species saw a decrease in relative limb length in comparison to body length in urban environments. The trends observed in common-side blotched lizards may be explained by higher urban temperatures and novel substrates, while the trends observed in ornate tree lizards are likely due to prey availability, hunting strategy, and novel substrates.
ContributorsToledo, Jacob (Author) / Britton, Michael (Thesis director) / Bang, Christofer (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / School of Earth and Space Exploration (Contributor)
Created2024-05