The Phoenix area's canal system isn’t identified with romance and beauty like those in Venice or Amsterdam. It’s more utilitarian than that. But ASU student Will Novak is trying to change that.

Novak received an ASU innovation challenge grant worth $2,000 to help beautify the canals.

We also got the perspectives of Kirby Hoyt, President of Phoenix-based Edge Industries. He’s a landscape designer and landscape urbanist.