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Barelas Rail Yard Redevelopment: a Stakeholder Assessment Michael Furze University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Architecture and Planning ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 12-1-2010 Barelas Rail Yard Redevelopment: A Stakeholder Assessment Michael Furze Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arch_etds Part of the Architecture Commons Recommended Citation Furze, Michael. "Barelas Rail Yard Redevelopment: A Stakeholder Assessment." (2010). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ arch_etds/6 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Architecture and Planning ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Barelas Rail Yard Redevelopment: A Stakeholder Assessment BY MICHAEL W. FURZE B.A., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Community and Regional Planning The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico December, 2010 ii ©2010, Michael Furze iii DEDICATION I dedicate this thesis to Melody Zagami. With your love and support I was able to finish this document with distinction. To Bender and Darby, your constant request for play time helped me focused on the important things. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To my parents, Peter and Maria Furze, thank you for all of your patience, love and support. To my sister Melissa and my brother Steve, thank you for listening to my long-winded attempts to refine my ideas and for sharing my company. I love you all. I verily acknowledge Ric Richardson, my advisor and dissertation chair. Thank you for providing encouragement and opportunity in the classroom and in the field. His guidance, style and process will remain with me as I continue my career. I also thank my committee members, Dr. Claudia Isaac and Dr. Tim Imeokparia for their valuable recommendations to refine the theoretical framework and to maintain focus on the research as a tool for the communities around the Rail Yard. To my editor, Annette Odren, a small word of thanks is not nearly sufficient for what you did: hacking through French Marxists and circular logic on your weekends. I thank you for providing a modicum of human action to my writing. To my friend in the program, thank you for the many years of support: Aaron Sussman, without sandwiches we might not have made it through; Victoria Hirschberg, friend, thank you for the inspiration. And finally to my partner, Melody Zagami, your love, especially throughout the late hours and long weekends, is a tremendous gift I am thankful for every day. v Barelas Rail Yard Redevelopment: A Stakeholder Assessment BY Michael Furze Community-based redevelopment of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s twenty-seven acre Barelas Rail Yard site represents one possible outcome of the ongoing redevelopment process. This thesis uses semi- structured interviews with neighborhood residents and community activists to reveal visions and concerns about the future of the site from beyond the profit-driven approach of typical contemporary projects. Through interviews and the case studies, I provide recommendations for discussion and capacity-building that allows neighborhood residents to better navigate a complex political landscape and influence the redevelopment of the site through a community-based process that brings together multiple visions of renewed activity on the site that respects the cultural and historical relationship to the space while doing no harm to the surrounding neighborhoods. Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Master of Community and Regional Planning The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico December, 2010 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION.................................................................................................................. IV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.................................................................................................V TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............................................................................................VII LIST OF FIGURES .....................................................................................................XIII LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................... XIV CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................1 Overview........................................................................................................................1 Why the Rail Yard? .......................................................................................................2 Key Findings..................................................................................................................4 How to use this document..............................................................................................5 CHAPTER II: METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................8 Introduction....................................................................................................................8 Survey Methodology—Snowball Sampling within a Cluster Sample...........................9 The Survey Instrument.................................................................................................11 Limitations of the Sample............................................................................................12 CHAPTER III: LITERATURE REVIEW....................................................................14 Introduction..................................................................................................................14 Understanding Space ...................................................................................................14 Capitalist Space, Uneven Space...................................................................................16 Fordism ........................................................................................................................17 Shift from Fordism to Post Fordism ............................................................................18 Understanding Urban Growth......................................................................................22 vii Post Fordist Urban Growth ..........................................................................................25 Discourse of Post Fordist Urban Redevelopment........................................................26 Post Fordist Critique of Contemporary Urban Redevelopment...................................30 Social Response to Post Fordist Urban Growth...........................................................34 Political Economy of Urban Growth ...........................................................................37 Growth Machine ....................................................................................................38 Growth Coalitions..................................................................................................40 Urban Regimes.......................................................................................................40 Regulation Theory .................................................................................................43 Integrating Growth Regimes and Regulation Theory............................................44 CHAPTER IV: ALBUQUERQUE’S GROWTH AS A CITY ....................................48 Introduction..................................................................................................................48 Albuquerque’s Growth as a City..................................................................................49 Pre-Railroad ...........................................................................................................49 Railroad Boom.......................................................................................................50 Albuquerque after the Rail Road Boom.................................................................53 Post World War II..................................................................................................56 Urban Renewal Period ...........................................................................................57 Albuquerque’s Regional Growth ...........................................................................59 1980s......................................................................................................................59 1990s......................................................................................................................61 Post-Millennial ......................................................................................................62 Management of Growth-Establishing a Mode of Regulation......................................64 City/County Consolidation ....................................................................................64 Annexation.............................................................................................................65 viii Streamlining and Modernizing City Government..................................................65 Governance Structure.............................................................................................66 Promoting Growth—Shifting Mode of Regulation .....................................................66 Albuquerque/Bernalillo
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