IGTIGT Phase I Summary Statements - Draft 2/18/11

Summary Number: 10
 
Maximize easy connectedness among people when designing the functional layout of cities and the region
 
 "There are too many areas of segregation. For example: one area is primarily industrialized, one area is neighborhood, one area is businesses."
 "Besides University of Arizona to some extent, there is no one thing that binds together the community."
 ". . . light rail links to hubs in every region of the city."
 "The built environment has no coziness . . . it is suburbia with no interesting core."
 "I feel like Tucson is finally starting to 'grow up.' The size of our community is large enough to support exciting opportunities for arts and entertainment, yet not so big as to be completely overwhelming. I am not opposed to Tucson growing in size, as long as we build the infrastructure (roads!) to support it."
 "Latinos were here before Anglos, yet now the majority of Latinos are geographically segregated from central Tucson which is where the city appears to thrive (university, downtown)"
 "There doesn't seem to be a city center, just isolated spots where there are stores here, restaurants there, businesses there. I'd love to see more of a village model where there are several larger city centers."