Boulder, Colorado

"Boulder is the most populous city, and county seat, of Boulder County, in the US state of Colorado. Is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above sea level. The city is 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Colorado's largest city, Denver, and has a population of 97,385 (in 2010); the population of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area was 294,567.

Boulder is famous for its colorful Western history, being a choice destination for hippies in the late 1960s, and as home of the main campus of the University of Colorado, the state's largest university. The city of Boulder frequently receives high rankings in art, health, well-being, quality of life, and education. It is well-known for being among the earliest US cities to implement comprehensive "growth-management" strategies, including an urban growth boundary. It is a home rule municipality under Colorado law.

-adapted from "Wikipedia: Boulder, Colorado.

 

References

• Danish, Paul.
  • "Inconvenient truths about 'affordable' housing and Ballot Question 300." Boulder Weekly, October 29th, 2015. http://www.boulderweekly.com/opinion/danish-plan/inconvenient-truths-about-ldquoaffordablerdquo-housing-and-ballot-question-300/.
    
    "The campaign to pass the Danish Plan." Boulder Weekly, May 14th, 2015. http://www.boulderweekly.com/opinion/danish-plan/the-campaign-to-pass-the-danish-plan/. 
    
    "The road to the Danish Plan." Boulder Weekly, May 7th, 2015. http://www.boulderweekly.com/opinion/danish-plan/the-road-to-the-danish-plan/. 
    
    "The Danish Plan recalled." Boulder Weekly. April 30th, 2015. http://www.boulderweekly.com/opinion/danish-plan/the-danish-plan-recalled/. 
    
    "Boulder’s insane densification." Boulder Weekly, April 16th, 2015. http://www.boulderweekly.com/opinion/danish-plan/boulderrsquos-insane-densification/. 

• de Raismes, Joseph N. , III, H. Lawrence Hoyt, Peter L. Pollock, Jerry P. Gordon, David J. Gehr. "Growth Management In Boulder, Colorado: A Case Study." 2015.  http://livableboulder.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Growth-Management-In-Boulder-Colorado-a-Case-Study-.pdf. 
   
• Engle, Robert, Peter Navarro, and Richard Carson. "On the Theory of Growth Controls." Journal of Urban Economics, 32,269-283 (1992). http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~rcarson/papers/TheoryGrowthControls.pdf. 
   
• Hall, Peter. "The Containment of Urban England." The Geographical Journal, Vol. 140, No. 3 (Oct., 1974), pp. 386-408. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1796533.  [article summary of Hall's 1973 book of the same name]. 
   
• Jackson, Katharine J. "The Need for Regional Management of Growth: Boulder, Colorado, as a Case Study." The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 299-322. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27895535.  
   
• Livable Boulder. "Boulder’s Growth: a succinct history." November 1st, 2015. http://livableboulder.org/boulders-secret-limited-growth/boulders-growth-a-succinct-history/.
   
• Markus, Ben. "Denver Construction Is A-Boomin’, But For How Long?" Colorado Public Radio, April 4th, 2017. https://www.cpr.org/news/story/denver-construction-is-a-boomin-but-for-how-long.
   
• McCormick, Kathleen. "Gentle Infill: Boomtowns are making room for skinny homes, granny flats, and other affordable housing." Land Lines (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), July 2016. https://law.wustl.edu/landuselaw/Articles/Gentle%20Infill.pdf. 
   
• Olmsted, Frederick Law. "The improvement of Boulder, Colorado; report to the City Improvement Association."  Boulder City Improvement Association, 1910. https://archive.org/details/improvementofbou00olmsrich.
   
• Pendall, Rolf, Jonathan Martin, and William B. Fulton. 2002. "Holding the Line: Urban Containment in the United States." Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. [§2.9]. https://www.brookings.edu/research/holding-the-line-urban-containment-in-the-united-states/. 
   
• Pettem, Silvia. Boulder: Evolution of a City. (Revised Edition, 2006).  Amz $18.51 Prime. 
   
• Pollock, Peter. "Controlling Sprawl in Boulder: Benefits and Pitfalls." Land Lines, January 1998. https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/controlling-sprawl-boulder.
   
• Staley, Samuel R., Jefferson G. Edgens, Ph.D., Gerard C.S. Mildner. "A Line in the Land: Urban-growth Boundaries, Smart Growth, and Housing Affordability." RPPI (Reason Public Policy Institute), Policy Study No. 263, 1999.  http://reason.org/files/c5ba9be86e1bda65352dcf0e87a46c5a.pdf.
   
• Taylor, Carol. "Learn more about man who helped plan Boulder." Daily Camera, April 26th, 2013. http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_23116372/frederick-law-olmsted-jr-helped-plan-boulder.