Historic Preservation and the Imagined West
In many of the American cities, historic preservation evolved differently, as have the destinies of the historical neighborhood in these cities. Denver, Seattle and Albuquerque are three such examples where the interests of different groups and the integration of the historical neighborhoods in the life of the city affected their overall development.
In Denver, the historical neighborhood is considered to be the area containing the Larimer Square and Lower Downtown. The respective area marked its transformation from the old warehouse district into a "mixed-use neighborhood" (Morley, 2006). The initial objective for saving and preserving the historical neighborhood in Denver was that of "revitalizing the central business district" (Morley, 2006). With such an objective in mind, there was a mixture of groups that fought to put that in practice and that included the city council and NGOs, as well as part of the business community.
However, the final objective was also that of recognizing and preserving the civic identity that was associated with the Larimer Square, location of the initial birth of the city. The idea of identity was also reflected in the fact that the area around Larimer Square and the Lower Downtown was the only one in the city that could differentiate it from other places in the United States and make it unique. From that perspective, the city needed to preserve its identity. One of the interesting aspects is that the identity could not be that of warehouses and manufacturing units, as the initial area had historically proposed. As such, the historical neighborhood received an "urban remake."
In the case of Seattle, the historic flavor seems to revolve around two main areas of the cities: Pike Place and the original Pioneer Square....
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