CANAL MAPPING: FINDING PUBLIC SPACE

October 30, 2015October 30, 2017 Katie Belous

The canal network that flows through Phoenix, the basis for the metropolis itself, offers the city a chance to sustain green neighborhoods in the interior of the city, agriculture at its periphery and perhaps a place for public life and space in the future. Looking back, the canal banks, lined by Cottonwood trees, were places where Phoenix residents sought out recreation and interaction.
Today, Phoenix imagines how to recapture what has been forgotten canalside. In this project, looking from multiple vantages along the Arizona Canal, we wondered where growth, development and potential for future canal use intersected. The site we continued to return to is along the border of Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). Bounded by Pima Road and the Pima 101 Freeway, the canal is located inside of an area zoned for Commercial Mixed Use and is transforming rapidly.
This project seeks to visually record the SRPMIC canal site as development accelerates, to examine change over time and to record this process along the waterway, taking visual cues from past projects along the Arizona Canal.

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: Statue – Canal Mapping

: Landscaping – Canal Mapping

: Path Detail – Canal Mapping

: Jog – Canal Mapping

: Manicure – Canal Mapping

: Canal Information Plaque – Canal Mapping

: Hoof – Canal Mappin

: Floodlight – Canal Mapping

: Bridge View – Canal Mapping

: Neiman Marcus – Canal Mapping

: Reverse – Canal Mapping

: Sky Eye – Canal Mapping

: Scottsdale Waterfront – Canal Mapping

: Screen

: Under The W – Canal Mapping

: Palm – Canal Mapping

: Parking Divider, Metrocenter Mall – Canal Mapping

: Parking Lot, Metrocenter Mall – Canal Mapping

: Streetlight, Metrocenter Mall – Canal Mapping

: Storefront, Metrocenter Mall – Canal Mapping

: Transit Center, Metrocenter Mall – Canal Mapping

: Water Treatment Plant – Canal Mapping

: Spillway Subject to Flooding – Canal Mapping

: Trash Near Canal – Canal Mapping

: Canal View near Castles and Coasters – Canal Mapping

: Water Treatment Plant – Canal Mapping

: Helicopter Trail – Canal Mapping

: Castles and Coasters – Canal Mapping

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: Cottonwoods – Canal Mapping

: Canal – Canal Mapping

: Golf Course – Canal Mapping

: Golf Course Rock – Canal Mapping

: Cottonwoods – Canal Mapping

: Foothills Palo Verde – Canal Mapping

: Canal Path – Canal Mapping

: Property of the U.S. – Canal Mapping

: Marks in Path – Canal Mapping

: Bush – Canal Mapping

: Sprout

: Overflow – Canal Mapping

: Facing Scottsdale Side of Pima Road – Canal Mapping

: Facing Pima side of Pima Road – Canal Mapping

: Construction Debris – Canal Mapping

: Construction Debris – Canal Mapping

: Truck – Canal Mapping

: Canal Path – Canal Mapping

: Canal Overflow Channel – Canal Mapping

: Field near Canal – Canal Mapping

: Canal Irrigation – Canal Mapping

: Canal Irrigation Pool near Pima Road – Canal Mapping

: Canal under Interstate 101 – Canal Mapping

About Katie Belous

Katie Belous is a native Phoenician and a student of urban planning at Arizona State University. Her primary area of concentration is community development, and she is interested in the creation processes and performance of public space within the greater Phoenix area.

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