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The Plazas of New Mexico

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The Plazas of New Mexico documents the wealthy heritage of New Mexico’s plazas and the on a regular basis life and community celebrations that assist sustain them. It traces three distinct design traditions — the Native American center place with kiva and terraced residential blocks, the Hispanic plaza with church and courtyard houses, and the Anglo square with courthouse and business blocks. This landmark volume has resulted from a multi-year research project involving 50 students, a half dozen faculty members, and out of doors experts working through the Historic Preservation and Regionalism program on the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning. New Mexico’s plazas, like urban spaces all over, are gaining renewed attention on this time when the challenges of sustainability have sparked the Smart Growth movement, urban revitalization and intensified historic preservation. Detailing the success of restoration projects, this book shows encourage heritage tourism within the service of, reasonably than on the expense of, local quality of life and community sustainability.


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