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UNM's DPAC and New Mexico Main Street Assist Deming, Lovington and Grants
3/25/2009, UNM Today
Build it and they will come. Communities across New Mexico struggle with decline in city centers and a need to reestablish their identities and forge plans for future development. Before it can be built, it must be envisioned and designed. Enter DPAC, the Design Planning Assistance Center, the community outreach arm of the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. DPAC has worked with scores of towns and villages in just such initiatives, in concert with New Mexico MainStreet.
This semester the DPAC studio – team taught by Phil Gallegos, DPAC director, Steve Borbas, adjunct professor, Jacobo Martinez, DPAC program specialist and Levi Romero, research scholar – are ambitiously pursuing projects in three communities.
In Deming and Lovington downtown revitalization is at the forefront of community conversations and classroom collaborations; and in Grants, they are designing a pavilion for the town’s annual Fire and Ice Bike Rally. They’ve got an eye focused on Grants’ Main Street, too.
The students are divided into groups. Each group visits its assigned community armed with maps and demographics, drawing paper and laptops. They hit the streets with cameras to look at buildings, peer in windows, observe traffic flow and scan alleyways.
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