Albuquerque, Denver & Seattle

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This paper takes a look at Judy Mattivi Morley's book, 'Historic Preservation and the Imagined West: Albuquerque, Denver and Seattle'.
According to the paper, along with the cities of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Seattle, Washington, the city of Denver, Colorado has gone through many phases and many changes in its history. The paper discusses the clashes between preserving historic districts and bulldozing them down for "urban renewal".

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"But during the Great Depression the square fell into hard times: "Pioneer Square's social deterioration mirrored its physical decline," Morley explained on page 71. More bad luck happened when there was an earthquake in 1948 that caused a lot of structural damage to buildings in Pioneer Square. Then in the late 1950s the Central Association of Seattle was created to upgrade the city's image and infrastructure, and the Seattle Center was built in 1962 for the World's Fair. In the late 1960s, the clean-up of Pioneer Square began, as buildings were renovated and artists, architects, interior designers who "liked the aesthetics of the old buildings" (Morley, 75) - along with young professionals who prized the proximity to downtown - began moving in."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Morley, Judy Mattivi. (2006). Historic Preservation & the Imagined West: Albuquerque, Denver & Seattle. Kansas: University Press of Kansas.

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