| | Organizations Supporting New Plazas for New Mexico | The AICP has recognized the Laws of the Indies as a National Planning Landmark. New Mexico APA lists the following objectives of this designation:
To highlight the valuable contributions sound planning has made to the quality of human settlement in New Mexico, to connect planning culturally and historically to Hispanic civilization in the New World, and to promote planning's effect on the making of New Mexico's most valued public spaces, its eleven remaining historic plazas.
To give statewide media coverage to the cultural history of urban and regional planning ideals in New Mexico and to promote those ideals among state legislators and the general public.
To celebrate our tradition of intentional place making through planning as an accomplishment that has brought meaning and beauty to the lives of countless New Mexicans and visitors.
To remind current residents and lawmakers of community-wide needs, the significance of neighborhoods and community centers, the need for personal involvement in community policy making, the fragile nature of the environment, and the necessity to consider future impacts in community and regional development.
To remind us that community planning is at least as potent a cultural tradition in New Mexico as the Code of the West and cult of the individual, and
To underscore the continuing contribution of Hispanic community planners; |
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