Profiting from the Peak - John Harner

Profiting from the Peak

Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs

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Buch | Softcover
338 Seiten
2022
University Press of Colorado (Verlag)
978-1-64642-307-1 (ISBN)
36,10 inkl. MwSt
Colorado Springs, Colorado, has long profited from Pikes Peak and built an urban infrastructure to sustain that relationship. In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces. He examines the cultural values that have come to define the city, showing how military and other institutions, tourism, political and economic conditions, cultural movements, key individual actors, and administrative policies have created a singular urban personality.

Capital accumulation has been a defining theme of Colorado Springs from its very beginning, with enormous profits generated from regional industrialization, railroads, land sales, water appropriation, and extraction of coal and gold. These conditions and its setting in the Rocky Mountain West formed a libertarian-oriented, limited governance philosophy.

This persistent prioritization of liberty at the heart of Colorado Springs’s identity, specifically the freedom to conduct business and generate profits in a relatively unconstrained setting, has directed the urban sprawl of the built landscape and molded the region’s political culture. Profiting from the Peak will be of interest to historical and urban geographers, historians of Colorado and the American West, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the cultural identity of Colorado Springs.
 

John Harner is professor of geography at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.  He collaborated on a digital geo-humanities project with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum that brings the city’s historical landscapes to the public (www.cspmstoryofus.com). He was a Fulbright scholar and visiting professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2005, and he received the University of Colorado Thomas Jefferson Award in 2018.  

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Colorado
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 466 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-64642-307-0 / 1646423070
ISBN-13 978-1-64642-307-1 / 9781646423071
Zustand Neuware
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