Historic Preservation and the Imagined West Albuquerque, Denver, and Seattle

Name: Historic Preservation and the Imagined West Albuquerque, Denver, and Seattle
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ISBN: 9780700617609

ISBN-10: 0700617604

ISBN-13: 9780700617609

Edition: 2006

Authors: Judy Mattivi Morley

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Stroll through Larimer Square in Denver or through Pioneer Square in Seattle and you feel that you're stepping into history while browsing the expensive boutiques and tourist shops. But are you? In this intriguing study of some of America's favorite places, Judy Morley takes a fresh look at adaptive reuse efforts in cities of the former frontier. Focusing on urban preservation resulting from the competing interests of architectural preservationists, city planners, chambers of commerce, and boosters, she shows how developers have often taken artistic license to refashion the western past into shopping centers and tourist traps-in ways that privilege an imagined "heritage" over a more complex…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English