Emanuel Michael “Mike” Cartsonis, 88, died on April 12, 2016. While serving in the U.S. Army's occupying forces in Japan, he saw the impressive Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel. Inspired by Wright's architecture, he entered Wayne State University to study art. He transferred to the University of Michigan where he received his architecture degree. He earned a graduate degree in city planning from University of Pennsylvania. Mike's early professional achievements include his award-winning design of University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library while still a graduate student at Penn. He was a key member of the team that conceived and implemented Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle renaissance. He and his longtime friend and colleague, Patrick Cusick, were recruited by Goodyear Corporation to create the groundbreaking planned community of Litchfield Park, Arizona. Mike remained Litchfield's City Planner for much of the next 50 years, taking time off to teach architecture at ASU and University of Waterloo in Canada, and to plan the city of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. He later worked in Urban Planning and Zoning for the City of Scottsdale. During the 70s and 80s Mike founded his own firm and designed a number of commercial, medical, public, and residential projects. In 2014 he resigned from Litchfield Park to focus on activism and to care for his wife, Sylvia. Mike is survived by his wife, Sylvia, a brother, five children, and seven grandchildren.