{"id":2600,"date":"2013-04-19T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2014-07-04T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:29:23","slug":"ludlow-tent-city-featured-on-pbss-colorado-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interculturalurbanism.com\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Ludlow Tent City Featured on PBS’s “Colorado Experience”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, it\u2019s a program about the 1914 Ludlow Massacre<\/a>, but readers of this blog know that I\u2019m interested in the 1913-14 striker\u2019s camp for what it can tell us about \u201ctactical<\/a>\u201d urban planning in a multicultural society.\u00a0 It might sound like a stretch to think that we can learn anything relevant for contemporary urban planning from excavations at a 200 tent, 1200 person striker\u2019s camp located on a bit of windswept Colorado prairie.\u00a0 However, this is how archaeologists have to think if they\u2019re to wring as much contemporary relevance as they can out of their work.\u00a0 Even granting the significant scale differences between Ludlow and, say, Denver, socially integrative principles are socially integrative principles no matter what the settlement scale. \u00a0How those principles shaped the built environment at a culturally diverse community like Ludlow under very challenging political and economic conditions is, in my view, a fascinating research question.\u00a0 We have a long way to go to clarify principles of intercultural<\/i> planning and design at the tent city given that only 1% of the area has been excavated. \u00a0But I\u2019m still betting that there\u2019s a whole lot more to learn beyond what\u2019s reported elsewhere on this blog<\/a>. \u00a0Click on this image of the tent city for the Colorado Experience broadcast<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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On a related note, today I was at the state capitol to witness Governor John Hickenlooper<\/a>\u2019s signing of\u00a0 an Executive Order creating the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission, of which I’m a member.\u00a0 The signing formally kicks off a year of state-wide events–lectures, exhibits, interactive performances, and lots of other stuff–commemorating the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the conflict that changed the course of American labor history.\u00a0 The Executive Order is here:<\/p>\n