Walking Albuquerque. Stephen Ausherman
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INTRODUCTION
“Even for Albuquerque, this is pretty Albuquerque.”
—Kirk Douglas, Ace in the Hole
People have walked in this area for the past 12,000 years. The earliest established walking routes date back at least a thousand years. For nearly two centuries following its founding, the Villa de Alburquerque was, by lack of choice, a pedestrian town.
The City of Albuquerque mushroomed in response to the AT&SF Railroad, Route 66, and Kirtland Air Force Base. With so much of its early industry catering to planes, trains, and automobiles, Albuquerque didn’t exactly develop as a perambulator’s paradise. However, that doesn’t mean the art of walking has met its demise here. Far from it. A surge in renovations and redevelopment