Gibson, Martin W.

Writer and local historian Martin W. Gibson has compiled a fascinating story of the community's evolution from sleepy, rural area to bustling, residential village. Through private photographic collections, many never before published, Gibson tells the dramatic story of what preceded Ahwatukee, the first master-planned community on the south side of South Mountain, and how its success ushered in the developments of Mountain Park Ranch, Lakewood, The Foothills, and Club West, influencing the unprecedented building boom in the southeast Valley of the Sun that continues to this day.