Phoenix rebuilds downtown as it woos Silicon Valley professionals
But sceptics worry there is just too much building going on and that it will come crashing down soon
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ON King of the Hill, the animated sitcom that aired for 13 years on Fox, the character named Peggy Hill once called Phoenix "a monument to man's arrogance". Last summer, on a day the temperature broke records at 115 degrees, someone posted a segment on Reddit under the thread "Phoenix, Arizona, should not exist." And that is just a small taste of the disrespect often heaped on the sixth-largest city in the United States.
One scholar has called it "the world's least sustainable city". Vice, in an article on how Phoenix is the "worst place ever", described it as "a bloated tangle of tasteless architecture that never seems to stop ballooning outward".
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