More episodes on historic preservation please! Great episode by @99piorg that covers the complicated relationship of urban development & heritage tourism, equity in housing, and the preservation of community identity and historic architecture. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/stuccoed-in-time/
Stuccoed in Time - 99% Invisible

Santa Fe is famous in part for a particular architectural style, an adobe look that’s known as Pueblo Revival. This aesthetic combines elements of indigenous pueblo architecture and New Mexico’s old...

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/stuccoed-in-time/
Great that it also touched base on the individualism/suburbanization HUD housing design can impose on regional history. Pueblo architecture has a historical practice of multi-unit housing density, which was not honored in Sante Fe’s 20th c preservation movement. 1/2
Preserving built heritage is not only about the aesthetics of an architectural style, but also its regional construction technology, which responds to climatic conditions and builds upon a tradition rooted culture. 2/2
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