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- catalog abstract ""Cities on the Plains relates the history of Kansas's larger communities from the 1850s to the present. The first book to provide a comprehensive, comparative account of an entire state's urban development, it shows how Kansas's current hierarchy of cities and urban development emerged from a complex and ongoing series of promotional strategies. Railroads, the mining industry, the cattle trade - all exercised their influence over where and when these settlements were originally established." "Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13227141.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Cities on the Plains relates the history of Kansas's larger communities from the 1850s to the present. The first book to provide a comprehensive, comparative account of an entire state's urban development, it shows how Kansas's current hierarchy of cities and urban development emerged from a complex and ongoing series of promotional strategies. Railroads, the mining industry, the cattle trade - all exercised their influence over where and when these settlements were originally established."".
- catalog description ""Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-470) and index.".
- catalog description "Systems of cities on the plains -- The river towns to 1860 -- Lawrence, Topeka, and the placement of public institutions, 1854-1866 -- Railroad promotion and a reconceptualization of urban Kansas, 1863-1880 -- Later railroads and railroad towns, 1877-1910 -- Mining, irrigation, and newer institutional towns, 1876-1950 -- Urban consolidation in a railroad mode, 1880-1950 -- Postindustrial Kansas I: the interstate cities since 1950 -- Postindustrial Kansas II: life beyond the exit ramps.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 480 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cities on the plains.".
- catalog identifier "0700613129 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cities on the plains.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Cities on the plains.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas.".
- catalog subject "307.76/09781 22".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns Kansas.".
- catalog subject "HT123.5.K2 S56 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Systems of cities on the plains -- The river towns to 1860 -- Lawrence, Topeka, and the placement of public institutions, 1854-1866 -- Railroad promotion and a reconceptualization of urban Kansas, 1863-1880 -- Later railroads and railroad towns, 1877-1910 -- Mining, irrigation, and newer institutional towns, 1876-1950 -- Urban consolidation in a railroad mode, 1880-1950 -- Postindustrial Kansas I: the interstate cities since 1950 -- Postindustrial Kansas II: life beyond the exit ramps.".
- catalog title "Cities on the plains : the evolution of urban Kansas / James R. Shortridge.".
- catalog type "text".