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The Memorial area of Houston, Texas, United States is west of Downtown Houston and northwest of Uptown Houston. It is bounded on the south by Buffalo Bayou, on the east by Interstate 610, on the west by Texas State Highway 6, and extends just north of the Katy Freeway to Westview and ends at the Memorial Villages: Spring Valley Village, Piney Point Village, Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village and Hunters Creek Village. These independent cities operate autonomously of Houston and have joint fire and police coverage. The northeast area near I-10 and Texas State Highway Beltway 8 of Memorial City is home to Memorial City Mall, the newer, more upscale Town & Country Village lifestyle center, and the mega-development project known as CityCentre, plus the emerging edge city around them. ==History== In the 1930s wealthy people had large home plots. The backs of these plots had horse stables, and horseback riding was a popular activity. As time passed, the owners of the stables sold them, and many were replaced with houses.〔Chang, Yushan. ''Newcomer's Handbook Neighborhood Guide: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin''. First Books, 2006. ISBN 0912301708, 9780912301709. p. (145 ).〕 In the 1950 and 1960s, Houston was experiencing a period of suburban growth as the city expanded beyond the traditional area inside the Interstate 610 loop. After the construction of Interstate 10 through the city in 1968, the area where Memorial now resides became favorable to developers. At first, the Memorial area was sparsely populated and contained mostly empty land and farms, plus the few farm-to-market roads and thoroughfares. Development began in the late 1950s, as upper-middle-class subdivisions, mostly along the Buffalo Bayou, were built along with the accompanying government facilities (schools, police and fire services, etc.) This sudden arrival of widespread development also encouraged commercial growth along the main roads that criss-crossed the area, including the major road Memorial Drive. For the next four decades, the area continued to prosper. Development in the Memorial Villages between Beltway 8 (then known as West Belt, constructed in 1968) and Interstate 610 made the area attractive to public figures. Homes in the Villages now sell for upwards of one million dollars. In the last two decades, the immediate area around the Interstate 10/Beltway 8 junction has suddenly become one of Houston's main edge cities, along with the Texas Medical Center, Uptown Houston and the Astrodomain. Memorial City Mall, often regarded as one of the city's most prestigious shopping malls, and the Memorial Hermann Hospital center next to it, are the main landmarks of the Memorial City area. Recent skyscraper development along Interstate 10, including the notable Memorial Hermann tower next to the hospital - the city's 29th-tallest building at 500 feet - has arrived with the completion of the Katy Freeway's renovation. The area gained population between 1980 and 1990.〔Rodriguez, Lori. "(Census tracks rapid growth of suburbia )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday March 10, 1991. Section A, Page 1.〕 In the early 1990s, one of the few remaining private stables was sold and turned into a development. In 2015, village leaders hired disgraced retired APD police chief, Ray Schulz, who left a broken police force behind in Albuquerque to deal with changes to the department mandated by the DOJ. Albuquerque was a hotspot of police brutality and killings by police during Schulz's tenure, resulting in a DOJ investigation. Further, the so-called Bernalillo County Police Oversight Commission (POC)was dissolved after it was found to be a "rubber-stamping" agency for the Schulz administration: The POC, with the Chair-woman also serving as the President of the Albuquerque Fraternal Order of Police chapter, found 100% of police shootings "justified." Further an Albuquerque city councilor called for an investigation into corrupt purchasing and contract practices by Ray Schultz and the company, Taser.〔〔http://krqe.com/2014/04/10/comparison-apd-shoots-kills-more-than-other-agencies/〕〔http://krqe.com/2014/04/25/councilor-calls-for-investigation-of-schultz-and-taser/〕〔http://krqe.com/doj-apd/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memorial, Houston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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