Unintended Consequences (2007)
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Regulations, restrictions, laws, zoning, codes, and other enforceable mandates impact our environment, buildings, products, and behavior. Many of these controls are used to good effect, but some rules, meant to protect, restrict positive outcomes and behaviors. Unintended Consequences seeks to suggest creative alternatives and explore the value of design thinking across the physical, social, and cultural landscape.

Contributors to the exhibition include College of Design faculty and doctoral students and members of the professional and business community committed to improving the world through thoughtful design and planning. Unintended Consequences has been made possible by the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) and the College of Design.

Phoenix in Perspective: Reflections on Developing the Desert (2003)
Second edition, Grady Gammage Jr.
$20.00 perfectbound, ISBN 1-884320-26-0

This narrative offers a personal perspective on the explosive growth and development of Phoenix by Grady Gammage Jr., land-use attorney and community leader. Gammage grew up in Phoenix and watched valued desert lands disappear under the blades of bulldozers only to be replaced by a sea of red tile roofs atop the stucco walls of houses. A significant portion of the book recounts the history of real estate, water, and urban and suburban development in the Valley of the Sun, with emphasis on the significance of the way water, air-conditioning, and the car have shaped the metropolis. Water has defined this place and will continue to shape the future of Arizona and the West. While automobiles will remain the primary mode of transportation, Gammage urges that they be augmented by mass transit and electric vehicles. The book ends with a series of carefully considered, ambitious recommendations that could guide the future.

As a second edition of this well-regarded volume on Phoenix, Gammage offers a new preface updating developments on water rights and use, the drought in the western United States, and the ever-expanding sea of red tile roofs that is metropolitan Phoenix.

ASU from the Air (2000) David Scheatzle with Emily Kimling and Mookesh Patel, $17.95

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Phoenix Papers, Volumes I and II (1995)
K. Paul Zygas and Linda Johnson, eds.
$40.00 perfectbound

This elegantly designed two volume work presents the proceedings of two symposia held at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design in 1991. Together the volumes highlight Frank Lloyd Wright’s contributions to American’s design heritage, ranging from his vision for city planning and urban planning and urban design to his personal vocabulary of ornamentation and pattern. Volume 1 features essays by John Meunier, H. Allen Brooks, K.Paul Zygas, Peter Rowe, John Sergeant, and Lionel March and an interview with Corneilia Brierley. Volume II includes essays by Jeffrey Chusid, Lionel March, Donald Hallmark, Bruce Pfeiffer, and Linda Johnson. A substantial portion of volume 2 is a fully illustrated catalogue of an exhibition, “The Natural Pattern of Structure,” held at the Nelson Fine Art Center of Arizona State University, April-June 1991.