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Weinman, Kevin C.

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Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000./
Author:	Weinman, Kevin C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	334 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10279390
ISBN:	9781369805536

Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000.
Weinman, Kevin C.

Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 334 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Hampshire, 2017.

This dissertation studies the causes and effects of rapid and uncoordinated suburban growth in metropolitan Denver, Colorado after the Second World War. The region experienced sprawling, low-density residential development on its periphery despite a powerful wave of anti-growth sentiment and that swept the state in the sixties and seventies. This study argues that this resulted from the difficulties experienced by Coloradans in reconciling a number of their cherished ethics: individual freedom and the sanctity of property rights versus a nascent environmentalism, fervent pursuit of wealth and economic opportunity versus an enduring celebration of the state's traditional ranching heritage and rural character, and a preference for local control versus a desire for more comprehensive regional solutions to the problems of growth.

ISBN: 9781369805536Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000.
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520 $a The pace and type of suburban growth and development in metropolitan Denver emerged neither from intentional strategies nor a dominant development ethos. Instead, decades of indecisiveness and inaction at the state and county levels subjected the Denver metropolitan area to exogenous forces that filled the void. Outside corporate real estate developers privatized much of the process of the state's suburban growth by acquiring large plots of ranchland in unincorporated areas, creating and controlling an unprecedented number of governmental entities called "special districts" to provide infrastructure and public services to their developments, and designing and building enormous communities that were cities in all but name. These "invisible suburbs" overwhelmed county, regional, and state efforts to integrate these new communities seamlessly into the metropolitan area. Privatized development carried socioeconomic, civic, financial, and environmental implications for the region and its residents.
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