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Architecture--New Mexico--Albuquerque--Themes, motives, Albuquerque (N.M.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
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1992
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NA735.A47P75 1992eb
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720/.9789/61
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Architecture--New Mexico--Albuquerque--Themes, motives, Albuquerque (N.M.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
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A City at the End of the World
V.B. Price
Photographs by Kirk Gittings
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Price, V B. ( Vincent Barrett) A city at the end of the world / VB. Price; photographs by Kirk Gittings. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1371-X 1. ArchitectureNew MexicoAlbuquerqueThemes, motives. 2. Albuquerque (N.M.)Buildings, structures, etc. I. Title NA735.N396P75 1992 720'. 9789'61dc20 92-9028 CIP
1992 by V B. Price. All rights reserved. FIRST EDITION Photographs 1992 by Kirk Gittings. All rights reserved.
Book design by Kristina E. Kachele
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For Rini
IN MEMORIAM
R. W. Buddington Edith Barrett Price Marjorie H. Rini Helen K. Herman Patrick Chester Henderson James Michael Jenkinson
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"... the prime need for the city today is for an intensification of collective self-knowledge, a deeper insight into the processes of history, as a first step toward discipline and self-control." LEWIS MUMFORD, The City in History
"To me, home is less a town or a house or a society than a regionthis piece of earth. I am sure I would still want to return to it if some unimaginable catastrophe swept it clean of every human trace." HARVEY FERGUSSON, Home in the West
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: The Value of Locality
3
1 Time and Place
10
2 Reputation and Identity
25
3 Albuquerque and Santa Fe
41
4 Modernism and Regionalism
59
5 A City of Open Spaces
80
6 A Spiritual Region
98
7 A City of Babel
114
8 A City at the End of the World
135
Notes
145
Selected Bibliography
157
Index
163
Illustrations follow page
xvi
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Sometimes, even today, I'm surprised that I live in a place called Albuquerqueand that I call it home. For me, its name still belongs with those of other distant and exotic places like Timbuktu, Keet Seel, Shipaulovi, and Katmandu. I don't find it offensive that the New Yorker would run a cartoon with a line that reads "Obscure chess moves: queen's pawn to Albuquerque." I find it reassuring. I like living in a city that's the commercial capital of the most foreign state in the union. I like living in the outback, on the far frontier, in a city that everyone else thinks might as well be at the end of the world. It has its psychological advantages if you're part recluse, part romantic.
An exiled city kid from the beaches of L.A., I've lived in Albuquerque for more than thirty years, and it feels as if I always have. I count myself among those thousands of wanderers who sense they were destined to be New Mexicans. When I first crossed the Arizona/New Mexico state line in 1958, my identity with the state was immediate. The two-lane hardtop of Route 66 turned from red to black at the border, and with that transition I felt my homesickness for California replaced by a feeling of coming home. Even as a teenager I
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knew that I'd arrived at a promised land.1 New Mexico was a part of me and it seemed to promise a future as optimistic as it was mysterious.
Identifying with Albuquerque, though, took a little longer. But the bond is just as deep, if oddly barbed. I came of age in Albuquerque, near the University of New Mexico, in Old Town, and around the North Valley. Rural, small-town Duke City2 was for me an oasis in the desert between adolescence and adulthood. It was a tolerant and accepting place. It welcomed sojourners and nonconformists. It still does. But it's a hard town, too. It's made hostile by shifting cultural and political fault lines. And it often feels cold with loneliness. Many people escape to Albuquerque and, at the same time, want to escape from it. They leave their old lives behind and seek refuge in Albuquerque's isolation. But the city itself soon gets to them and they either come to hate it or find themselves looking beyond the city, to the high desert wilderness, for their solace. Albuquerque is an acquired taste. And it's only the context of its natural and human landscape that makes it worth the effort.
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