La calle : spatial conflicts and urban renewal in a southwest city / Lydia R. Otero.

Documents the urban renewal project, initiated in 1966, that erased a densely populated, predominantly Mexican American enclave located in a central region of Tuscon, Arizona, examining relationships between the destruction of place and history, and explores the roles of competing historical narrati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Otero, Lydia R.
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > Arizona > Tucson.
City planning > Arizona > Tucson.
Mexican Americans > Arizona > Tucson > History.
Tucson (Ariz.) > Social conditions.
City planning.
Mexican Americans.
Social conditions.
Urban renewal.
Arizona > Tucson.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • La calle, the Tucsonense downtown
  • Asserting economic and spatial dominance
  • Selling Tucson: rewriting history and recasting place
  • The politics of belonging and exclusion
  • Reaffirming order
  • The La Placita Committee : claiming place and history
  • The politics of memory
  • Conclusion.