Room to Grow

Urban Ambitions and the Limits to Growth in Weld County, Colorado

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6404637
AutoresKatherine M Johnson (0000-0001-9047-9964, University of Northern Colorado), Charles G Schmidt (University of Northern Colorado)
Año2009
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas525-553
Fecha de publicación2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087408322862
OpenAlexW2078375113
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas20

This study reconsiders the political conditions behind the geographically extensive pattern of urbanization in the United States by focusing on a rapidly urbanizing county on the northeast fringe of the Denver metropolitan area. Unusual for Colorado but typical of the industrialized northeast where this pattern first emerged, Weld County has a high concentration of small towns, the primary repository of statutory authority and ideological legitimacy to convert agricultural land to urban use. The urbanization of Weld County in the 1990s was amplified by the expansion of the towns into their surrounding farmland, which flooded the market with newly urbanized land. The study goes on to consider the prospects of this distinctively American political form in the wake of the property tax revolts of the late 1970s and early 1980s and the structural changes in the American economy during the past 30 years

Archaeology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Ideology · Legitimacy · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Urbanization · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning