ABSTRACT

Modernist ontologies of water physically materialise in Phoenix’s landscape: over 100 miles of canals convey water to the suburban grid, where thousands of gallons are piped into backyard swimming pools. The canal and pool are thus joined in architectural folly to move, hold, and control water in the service of sustaining the belief that dry ecologies are but supply chain problems in need of engineering solutions. These typologies reveal longstanding entanglements between the promises of modernity and aridland urbanism; and they further amplify the immense challenge of transitioning away from modern water infrastructure in the face of climate change. By using the canal and the pool as signifiers of the insidious entanglements between modernity, growth, and aridland urbanism, this article advances an historical examination of Phoenix that destabilises tropes of water scarcity as a problem to be solved but which has also created cultural perceptions of abundant water.

摘要

现代主义的水本体在凤凰城的景观中实体化：超过 100 英里的运河将水输送到郊区的电网，数千加仑的水被输送到后院的游泳池。因此，运河和水池在建筑上的愚蠢结合在一起，以移动、保持和控制水，以维持这样的信念，即干旱生态只是需要工程解决方案的供应链问题。这些类型揭示了现代性承诺与干旱地区城市主义之间长期存在的纠葛。面对气候变化，它们进一步放大了从现代水基础设施过渡的巨大挑战。通过使用运河和水池作为现代性、增长和干旱城市化之间阴险纠葛的标志，