The term, "la ciudad", literally translates in Spanish to "the city", or "the community", and it speaks of the vibrant communities of both the past and the future in this exact location. This bioscience campus was named La Ciudad to honor the innovators who have gone before us, and inspire us to leave a rich legacy for those who will come after.
La Ciudad Phoenix was one of the large Hohokam Indian villages that were once located about every three miles along extensive irrigation canals in the Salt and Gila river valleys. First founded in the early centuries A.D., La Ciudad endured for a millennium or more, evolving new forms of organization to meet life’s challenges on several scales of interaction until the Hohokam abandoned the Phoenix basin about A.D. 1450.1
There has been extensive archaeological research performed and documented confirming what we know now -- and what the Hohokams knew eons ago – La Ciudad is a unique place to come together, to share ideas, to innovate, to prosper, and to make life better for future generations. We invite you to join other visionaries in this special place.
1 Frank Midvale's Investigation of the Site of La Ciudad. David R. Wilcox. Tempe, Arizona: Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University. 1987 (tDAR ID: 4405) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8542M9N
