SCOTTSDALE

city, Maricopa county, residential-resort suburb of Phoenix, south-central Arizona, U.S. Its business district (in a Western frontier motif) is an arts and crafts centre and features Arizona-oriented fashions. The city is traversed by several canals of the Salt River Project; lettuce, grain, and cotton are grown in the surrounding area. Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural school, is to the north. The community, named for Winfield Scott (18371910), who settled the site with his brother George in the late 1880s, was originally a stagecoach stop between Camp McDowell and Phoenix. Nearby is the Cosanti Foundation, an architectural and crafts complex devised by architect Paolo Soleri. Inc. town, 1951; city, 1961. Pop. (1990) 130,099; (1998 est.) 195,394.