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Understanding the Sun Corridor Megapolitan: Future Prospects from 2000 to 2050

The Sun Corridor in Arizona encompasses vital urban spaces like Phoenix and Tucson, making up 88% of the state's economy. This megapolitan area integrates land use, commerce, and transportation planning across vast regions, fostering connections and growth. By 2050, key challenges including water scarcity and governance issues must be addressed to ensure sustainable development. This document highlights the importance of collective action among stakeholders and proposes steps to transform the Sun Corridor into an inclusive, living laboratory for innovation and resilience.

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Understanding the Sun Corridor Megapolitan: Future Prospects from 2000 to 2050

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  1. SUN CORRIDOR2035

  2. From Copper Belt

  3. To Sun Corridor

  4. Arizona 2000 and 2050 Source: Maricopa Association of Governments.

  5. 88% of Arizona’s Economy

  6. What is a Megapolitan?

  7. Urban Spaces and Connections

  8. Sun Corridor Land Owners

  9. AMegapolitanNation

  10. Realms aredefined bycharacteristics

  11. Realms in Perspective

  12. Realms in Perspective

  13. Five Megaton Topics The megapolitan concept is more than just two cities’ suburbs spilling across each other’s borders. It’s a combination of land use, commerce, and transportation planning that looks at vast areas as single entities. Arizona Republic 2006

  14. The Trend is Glocal Big Fish in Relatively Small Ponds: Phoenix, Tucson, and the Sun Corridor Lack a Global Profile

  15. Governance The Sun Corridor Has Hundreds of Players and No One’s in Charge

  16. Two Trillion Dollar Questions • Can Quality Ever Hope to Compete with Easy Money and 50 Years of Tradition? • Who Will Pay for Public Systems and Spaces?

  17. What About Water? The Oil of the 21st Century, Water is a Critical, Limited Resource

  18. The Tragedy of the Sunshine 1990-1994 Heat Island 2000-2004

  19. Do you want to live in the Sun Corridor?

  20. Steps Ahead • Educate citizens of the world • See Sun Corridor as a place • Make the Sun Corridor a living laboratory

  21. www.morrisoninstitute.org With support from • Stardust Foundation • Arizona Public Service Corporation • Salt River Project • Unisource Energy family of companies Tucson Electric Power Unisource Energy Services

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