Western Washington University Western CEDAR WWU Honors Program Senior Projects WWU Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship Spring 2020 Red or Green? Gentrification in Albuquerque, New Mexico Michael Patterson Western Washington University Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Patterson, Michael, "Red or Green? Gentrification in Albuquerque, New Mexico" (2020). WWU Honors Program Senior Projects. 375. https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/375 This Project is brought to you for free and open access by the WWU Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in WWU Honors Program Senior Projects by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Red or Green? Gentrification in Albuquerque, New Mexico Honors Capstone by Michael Patterson Under advisement from Dr. Salazar June 12th, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 1 ALBUQUERQUE’S HISTORY ................................................................................................... 12 ALBUQUERQUE IN THE 21ST CENTURY ................................................................................... 14 UNDERSTANDING GENTRIFICATION AS AN URBAN STRATEGY .............................................. 19 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND GREEN GENTRIFICATION ....................................................