The Rhetoric of Growth in Colorado: Reconciling Perceptions and Reality

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

06/19/2008

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Linguistics

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Summary :

Colorado's Business Climate at a Glance.
Governor Owens' remark, speak to what he calls ?that special Colorado way of life,? .
Respect for the wilderness and respect for the individual are both central to the Coloradan identity.
The amount of land that growth has consumed and the rate of its consumption.
Another letter, this one from Dorothy Unruh, expresses a similar sentiment:
Negative typifications at more local levels show how Coloradans define their communities in opposition to other regions of Colorado.
The use of Environmental Future in this letter signifies that concern for the environment is assumed to be universal.

Abstract

In 1990, colorado was a state of about 3.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001b). By 2000, colorado's population had grown to 4,301,261 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001b). colorado's new residents spurred development in areas once sparsely inhabited. The population of Superior in Boulder County, for instance, shot from 351 to 9,011 residents over the 10-year period (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001a; 2003). Land throughout the state, and especially on the Front Range In 2000, Janna Six and Ramon Ajero reported that "the land encompassed by the Denver Metropolitan area is growing four times faster than its population growth rate"