EDITORIAL SPREAD: SOCIAL IMPACTS OF URBAN RENEWAL AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Skidmore College

Communication Design I (AR 209)

Professor Deb Hall

Spring 2021

I designed a magazine-style editorial spread around an excerpt of an essay I wrote during the Fall of 2020 for an independent Art History project. The essay investigates the sociopolitical ramifications of Urban Renewal and historic preservation in the resort and famed horse track town of Saratoga Springs, New York. Although the city’s charming, at times majestic Victorian architecture attracts tourism and evokes romantic nostalgia for the city’s prosperous past, Urban Renewal and preservation projects have also exacerbated racial and socioeconomic segregation. The prioritization of this aesthetic has created an identity for the city heavily associated with elitism and whiteness. My decisions around text, images, and layout engage the reader and offer visual context.