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April 8, 2008
On the weekend I went to the Modern Phoenix Home Tour and Expo. This opened several houses through an older neighbourhood that had been built by the Schreiber brothers, Charles and Arthur as part of Phoenix's growth in the 50s and 60s. It celebrated the style and the doing over of these houses in a modern contemporary look.
Phoenix has a strong contemporary streak. I suspect it is because it is a cheap place to live relatively, many of the houses are old, and the neighbourhoods like Scottsdale are heavily gentrified. Consequently houses get made over and modernised in a very stylish manner. It makes Phoenix and Scottsdale appear very hip in a mini Los Angeles kind of way. It is very much a part of Phoenix's culture.
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Cam,
judging by your Flickr photos a lot of these modernized houses have very bare gardens.
Is that a gardening style---bare earth ands a cactus or two--in Arizona?