by Scot Just in case: A) You have a hankering to see historical maps for Albuquerque going back to 1990, 1978, 1960, 1954, 1938 and even back to the 19th Century; B) You’ve had trouble finding a one-stop shop for such maps… Here is that one-stop shop. Below is an excerpt from the 1960 map,… Read More Albuquerque Historical Maps: The Motherlode

by Scot (cross-posted from Duke City Fix) Ah, the “good ‘ol days.” In this pestilent year of 2017, it is so very pleasant to hearken back to a simpler time, one in which we were not bombarded on an unceasing basis with stories of hatred, oppression and battles among our fellow humans. Instead of obsessively… Read More Looking Back to a “Better Time”: 1970 and Lincoln Junior High

  By Scot Looking further into Albuquerque’s transportation history as follow-up to yesterday’s “ABQ’s ‘Border Wall,’” a reader passed along a fascinating South Broadway Neighborhoods 1968 sector plan. That document led to another, which led to more old docs (at least the Internet is good for some things), which currently has me at this: A 1976 Draft Environmental… Read More Research Note Toward “ABQ’s ‘Border Wall'” II

Not Ciudad Juarez blocked at the border into El Paso, but ABQ’s Dan Avenue S.E. abruptly ending, now, at I-25 by Scot Key Border walls are all the nativist rage these days, urged on by enraged people convinced that, if we can just Balkanize and segregate enough, “we” can block “them” all out, leaving only “us.”… Read More Albuquerque’s “Border Wall”

by Scot (with help from BB readers) Last week we had a “contest” to declare the “Most Dangerous Bike Route in the Duke City.” In case you missed it, bike routes are streets that don’t have bike lane striping, but are generally considered more convivial toward cyclists. They also serve an important bike transportation role as… Read More Results From Our “Most Dangerous Bike Route in ABQ” Contest

Contributing today, in what we hope is only the first of her countless essays here at BB, retired city planner Coco J. Harris examines an alfalfa field that has become… Las Estancias – local units of the Spanish feudal “encomienda” system that depended on the indentured servitude of natives. Also, the name of a confusing maze… Read More “Las Estancias” Worthy of Pride or Consternation?