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Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale has built its identity substantially around desert resort tourism and golf, with dozens of golf courses and luxury resort properties spread across the city's roughly 185 square miles, drawing visitors and seasonal "snowbird" residents from colder climates specifically for its combination of Sonoran Desert scenery and reliably warm winter weather. Frank Lloyd Wright established Taliesin West, his winter home and architecture school, in the desert foothills at Scottsdale's northern edge in 1937, and the sprawling complex, built directly into and from the surrounding desert landscape, remains an active architecture school and a National Historic Landmark open for public tours. Old Town Scottsdale preserves the city's original early-20th-century commercial core, now dense with art galleries, restaurants, and nightlife that draw both tourists and locals, a walkable historic district that contrasts with the golf-resort and gated-community development spread across much of the rest of the city. Scottsdale's combination of a major desert resort and golf-tourism economy, a direct architectural legacy through Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, and a well-preserved walkable historic downtown has made it one of the most nationally recognized and visited suburbs anywhere in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Tempe, AZ
Tempe is home to the main campus of Arizona State University, one of the largest public universities in the country by enrollment, and the school's roughly 80,000 students on the Tempe campus alone give the city a genuine college-town energy and a substantial share of its overall population identity. Tempe Town Lake, a two-mile artificial reservoir created in 1999 by installing inflatable rubber dams across the normally dry Salt River bed, transformed what had been an empty riverbed into a genuine waterfront amenity, hosting rowing, dragon boat racing, and a lakeside park system that's become one of the more distinctive pieces of public infrastructure anywhere in the desert Southwest. Mill Avenue, Tempe's historic main commercial street running directly toward the ASU campus, has developed into one of the more walkable and consistently active nightlife and dining districts in the entire Phoenix metro area, sustained substantially by the university's large student population. Tempe's combination of hosting one of the country's largest public universities, a genuinely inventive piece of desert waterfront infrastructure in Tempe Town Lake, and a lively, walkable college-town commercial district along Mill Avenue has made it one of the most distinctive and consistently youthful suburbs anywhere in the greater Phoenix area.
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