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Pioneering geographer and author of Boomtown Columbus, Kevin R. Cox takes us through the postwar history of development in Columbus to discuss how developers got their way.

Columbus, Ohio, and its ample cloud cover may be on the eastern edge of the Midwest, but the city’s unfettered suburbanization and rapid postwar expansion recall its Sunbelt peers.

To understand why—and the social and economic stakes of this all-too-common model of urban growth—pioneering 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 and equal opportunity for its residents.

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Boomtown Columbus: Ohio’s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way