The 2007 All-America City Awards

✍ Scribed by Timothy Hurley; Loc Cheng; Michael McGrath

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 96
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0027-9013
• DOI: 10.1002/ncr.192

✦ Synopsis

From Forgotten Neighborhood to Livable Community

Only a handful of neighborhoods have won the All-America City Award. Flowing Wells is one of them.

It was until recently a forgotten neighborhood, half of it inside the Tucson city limits, the other half part of unincorporated Pima County. Flowing Wells lacked infrastructure, government services, and physical amenities.

"I remember standing at my back fence, and I was so disgusted with what was out there," says local activist par extraordinaire Ellie Towne. "People