La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project-Arizona's first major urban renewal project-which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called "la calle." Here, amid small retail and service shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues, they openly lived and celebra...