October 4, 2006
Index to other relevant works
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Discussion
I just talked again with L H (who owns a major part of the lands just south of the Plaza) about the notion of a National Park skirting the south side of the Taos Historic district and D S regarding his architectural input based on his work on anticipatory design of a historically sensitive entrance to the south side of the district.
Pictures of the properties involved will be here
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/TaosDiscussion/pictures1.htm
in about an hour...
Let me take this opportunity to rehearse the issues and concepts.
First a general statement about the deep cultural and economic problems in the Taos art market.
http://www.virtualtaos.org/
The link in the upper left corner is to a short position paper regarding the exercise of legitimate Taos Pueblo national sovereignty
http://www.west.asu.edu/newcollege/ethnicstudiespanel/
over the roads in the Historic part of Taos. (This issue has historical grounding.)
http://www.virtualtaos.org/simultaneousPolicy2012.htm
in which is discussed
a national park to be developed from available lands acquired
The Smith grocery store and adjacent lands (12 acres)
Indian Hills Inn (3 acres)
the Pueblo Allegro mall building (2 acres)
the Hines storage properties (but NOT the Hines estate) (5 acres)
the existing property on which a McDonalds was built (were the natural springs was "plugged" (2 acres)
Either 10 acres and/or 27 acres of the Couse Foundation's meadow (which has a strong Pueblo ownership claim.
and that part of Hy 68 to splits the historic district and cause so much damage to the Taos art markets
Clearly the following are necessary:
· Strong support from the Taos Pueblo
· US Presidential Interest and funding for land (20M) and for new roads (20M)
· A truck by-pass that would take the gravel traffic off of the road through the Historic District
Given these three conditions, it is possible to continue the "Taos 2050" discussion.
My notes on virtual Taos is preserved in a type of web log..
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/TaosDiscussion/home.htm
The notes on the technology that eventually may be available to virtual markets is at
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/TaosDiscussion/home.htm
where one can look at 74 web log type web pages that are linked from this home page.
The technology notes are at:
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/TaosDiscussion/index.htm
Clearly, the renewal of the historic areas of Taos can be more easily represented in a virtual reality than can the physical appearance of the building and roads. And the development of the emarket for Taos should in some way to benefit to the renewal of the historic areas of Taos .