The changing community/industry relationship in resource-oriented boom towns: a case study of the Overthrust Industrial Association

A typical boom/bust cycle of community development has accompanied natural resource exploitation throughout the growth of the United States. These resource-oriented boom towns provide an opportunity for an evaluation of a changing community/industry relationship. The origins and evolution of the public and private sector relationship was examined in resource boom towns of the past. A case study was conducted of the Overthrust Industrial Association (OlA), based in Denver, Colorado. This case study provided insight into a potentially improved community/industry relationship occurring in the Overthrust Belt boom towns of Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho. Compared to the public/private relationship in resource-oriented boom towns of the past, the relationship occurring in these Overthrust Belt boom towns demonstrated an improvement with well-planned communities resulting. The improvements in the community/industry relationship have occurred because of a public/private partnership approach to urban planning. This partnership approach was the outcome of a delicate balance between community and industry control. The implications of this part

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Urban and Regional Planning

Department dc:contributor.department

Urban and Regional Planning

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Culpepper, Jennie Bob Bizal

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Levy, John M.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Anderson, Larz T.
• Yearwood, Richard M.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-07152010-020242

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/43746