This April, ASU’s Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory is bringing together creatives, academics and urban planners for a week of discussions on Phoenix’s problems and potential. But the capstone of ...

“Wouldn’t it be great if …” is often the start of an overheard conversation at any coffee shop in metro Phoenix. Students and members of PURL, which is an extension of The Design School at Arizona ...

As a child, Beth Purl enjoyed playing with Legos, the well-known plastic blocks that snap together to form everything from houses to spaceships. But unlike many kids, she liked building the structures ...