Support Preserving Place: The Santa Fe Continuum Symposium

The upcoming ‘Preserving Place: The Santa Fe Continuum’ explores the aspects of Santa Fe that have made it an attractive tourist and re-location destination for decades while looking at the many dualities that may create the disconnect in communication and social cohesiveness resulting from preserving the aesthetics primarily of the architecture of downtown Santa Fe. Preservation and its intersection with social issues proves to be a highly relevant topic especially on the occasion of the revisions of and changes to Santa Fe’s General Plan and Land Use Code. This year we want to explore the connections between the various sections of town – downtown, midtown, and southside and growth in the surrounding County; how the City and the County work together in governing this development, and what can be done to connect these areas and communicate more about issues in the various neighborhoods and communities in Santa Fe. The goal is to foster discussion about social, planning, development, and architecture-related issues around housing, development, adaptive reuse, and designing for the New Mexico climate using our preservation of the historical character of Santa Fe as a basis for these discussions. This event will take place at the New Mexico History Museum in a day-long event of three panels and an open forum

Santa Fe stands at a pivotal moment. The Santa Fe Continuum convenes civic leaders, architects/builders, developers, preservationists, and community voices to explore how our past informs an equitable and sustainable future. The choices we make now about housing, urban design, and growth will determine not only what our city looks like, but who can call it home. Continuum 2026 brings us together to ask a shared question: How do we preserve Santa Fe’s sense of place while addressing issues of land use, growth, and affordability?

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