Boomtown Columbus: Ohio’s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way TIMELINE the “Amish murder” opened a

the “Amish murder” opened a window into the private lives of the young man

Joan Merriam Smith

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by Richard W

Boomtown Columbus: Ohio’s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way TIMELINE the “Amish murder” opened aColumbus, Ohio, and its ample cloud cover may be on the eastern edge of the Midwest, but the citys unfettered suburbanization and rapid postwar expansion recall its Sunbelt peers. To understand whyand the social and economic stakes of this all too common model of urban growthpioneering 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