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Clouds over Fort Collins: settlement, urban expansion, and flooding along a layered landscape

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dc.contributor.authorPurdy, Tristan, author
dc.contributor.authorChilders, Michael, advisor
dc.contributor.authorOrsi, Jared, advisor
dc.contributor.authorGrigg, Neil, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-07T10:08:46Z
dc.date.available2020-09-07T10:08:46Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractFort Collins, Colorado, home to over 150,000 people along the northern Front Range, is prone to flood. This natural disaster threat is not a recent development nor a strictly natural problem. Rather, flooding in Fort Collins is informed by the interaction of the local environment and the city's growth and development beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. This thesis explores the historical roots of Fort Collins's flood threat by considering the social, economic, and political factors that informed the physical shape of the city and how the city interacted with the watershed within which it sat. By tracing how the city's agrarian root's informed its location, and how a university, (usually) pleasant weather, and westward migration paved the way for urban and suburban expansion, this thesis displays flooding not as an exterior threat, but a natural process that has become enmeshed in Fort Collins's physical structure. Fort Collins is just one of many mid-sized American cities across the American West whose growth over the past century-and-a-half has created increasingly pressing environmental concerns. Addressing contemporary and future concerns over further growth and an increasingly unstable environment in Fort Collins and cities like it begins with understanding the historic interconnections between city growth and the environmental problem in question.
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dc.identifierPurdy_colostate_0053N_16213.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/212052
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectflood
dc.subjectFort Collins
dc.subjecturban expansion
dc.subjectflooding
dc.subjectFront Range
dc.subject.lcshAmerican West
dc.titleClouds over Fort Collins: settlement, urban expansion, and flooding along a layered landscape
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thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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