Writer · Historian · Consultant

Alicia Barber

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About
  • Reno’s Big Gamble
  • Writing
  • In the News
  • Contact

Monthly Archives: November 2019

Defining Reno’s “Downtown”

Posted on November 27, 2019 by admin

I recently wrote a piece for This Is Reno, in response to an op-ed by EDAWN head Mike Kazmierski in the Reno Gazette-Journal that called downtown Reno an “eyesore.” (My response was longer than could be published in the RGJ itself. You can read my piece (which links to Kazmierski’s) here.

Posted in Downtown Reno, Walkability, Writing

Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Buy The Book

Recent Posts

  • Washoe County Library Local Author Fest
  • Thank you for voting me Best Local Author!
  • Northeast Reno African American History Project
  • Love for Reno’s Divorce Industry
  • New Research in Reno’s Black History

Archives

Categories

  • Digital History
  • Downtown Reno
  • Historic Preservation
  • Oral History
  • Public Talks
  • Reno City Council Actions
  • Reno Divorce Industry
  • Uncategorized
  • Walkability
  • Writing
Copyright © 2025, Alicia Barber. All rights reserved.