| Over time, many urban areas experience notable physical transformations that reflect upon a community's changing economic base, political activities, and social history. This study focuses on the urban morphology of an eight-block section of Fourth Street in Reno, Nevada, that once served as a major east-west artery through the city. Decades of population growth, notable political and social circumstances, increased economic activity in the downtown area (specifically in the gaming industry), and the construction of an east-west interstate in the mid-1970s just north of Fourth Street, has greatly altered the physical landscape of the roadway and its adjacent blocks. Research and mapping of specific years in roughly twenty-year increments---1933, 1953, 1972, and 1994---reveal these significant alterations. Each of these years shows a snapshot of development at distinct periods of the Fourth Street strip's twentieth-century evolution and provides insight into its changing morphology. |
