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14 y TffB New YORK TtMBS NATIONAL S(;ND>I K DECCMBER 29 1994 <br />Paradise Paved: Urban Sprawl Puts Growing Strain on Western States <br />“We say we don't want to be like Los <br />Angeles, and yet we are,” said Phyliss Al- <br />berty, the Gilbert town clerk. "This land here <br />In the desert is so nch. Can we ever bring it <br />back?” <br />The first occupants of Phoenix, the Hoho- <br />kam people, built more than 200 miles of <br />Irrigation channels and then vanished 500 <br />years ago. The current residents like to point <br />out that they have more canals than Venice: <br />but they. too. wonder whether they arc build­ <br />ing a city that might end up as an archeologi ­ <br />cal curiosity. <br />NEXT. A new urban model. <br />THE BOTTOM LINE <br />‘Unhealthfur Air Days <br />The average numoer of days per <br />year v;ith unn^aithfur air between <br />1991 ana 1995. wnich occur when <br />levels of SIX poilulanis monitored by <br />the Environmental Protection <br />Agency exceed acceptable limits. <br />Cinr...................pays ____ <br />Seattle 0.6 • <br />Portland 2.6 ••• <br />Salt Lake City 8 0 ••••••••• <br />Denver 4 2 <br />Las Vegas 102 <br />Phoenix 96 <br />New York 9 6 <br />Los Angeles 1506 <br />Sou^» Agency <br />The New Yoni Times <br />ik r"l..j.idi.fUJi <br />* <br />I, -.eui 'i ‘ill <br />r u n <br />»• ^ a * * ■*'*’** <br />' -' •k <br />• *• i-w-r* T * <br />sS»i-< <br />r 1 <br />S 1^.'Jil . <br />1 :*r‘^y <br />... <br />a ^ «... <br />.A <br />• Krvta Hotoney for The New York Times <br />As Western sutes go through yet another populaUon boom, their largest urban areas are sprawling farther into ve^ that were once <br />isolated. In Superior. Colo., northwest of Denver. catUe graze in a field next to a housing development near Highway 36.