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Boomtown Columbus: Ohio?s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way
By : Kevin R. Cox
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Book Synopsis :
Columbus, Ohio, and its ample cloud cover may be on the eastern edge of the Midwest, but the city?s unfettered suburbanization and rapid postwar expansion recall its Sunbelt peers. To understand why?and the social and economic stakes of this all-too-common model of urban growth?pioneering geographer Kevin R. Cox takes us through the postwar history of development in Columbus, a city that has often welcomed corporate influence at the expense of livability and equal opportunity for its residents. How have development interests become entwined with government? How has a policy of annexation reformed the city?s map? Why have airline service and major league prestige lagged behind its status as a regional center? And what, if anything, makes this city with a reputation for being average stand apart? In?Boomtown Columbus,?Cox applies both scholarly expertise and his personal experience as a long-time resident of the city to look at the real-life costs of policy. The resulting narrative
Book Detail :
Author : Kevin R. Cox
Pages : 274 pages
Publisher : Trillium
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ISBN-10 : 0814257925
ISBN-13 : 9780814257920
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