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Road, river, & ol' boy politics : a Texas county's path from farm to supersuburb

Title
Road, river, & ol' boy politics : a Texas county's path from farm to supersuburb / Linda Scarbrough.
Author
Scarbrough, Linda.
Publication
Austin : Texas State Historical Association, [2005], ©2005.

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  • Texas State Historical Association.
  • University of Texas at Austin. Center for Studies in Texas History.
Description
xi, 403 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"In 1946 Williamson County, Texas, was profoundly rural. Half a century later, Williamson County was one of the five fastest-growing counties in the United States. How did this radical transformation occur?" "It came about largely through the machinations of a handful of local political and economics "bosses" who brought to Williamson County two great federal public works projects: Interstate Highway 35 and a dam on the tiny San Gabriel River. Those projects swept away the farmers and ranchers whose way of life had defined the county for 100 years and triggered explosive population growth. In Road, River, and Ol' Boy Politics, Linda Scarbrough tells a cautionary tale about the difficulties of anticipating ripple effects from large-scale public works "solutions" and of adequately planning for their environmental, economical, and cultural consequences. It is a central Texas tale pertinent to all of America's "oasis" cities across the Dry Sun Belt, a repeating story that has come to define American patterns of suburban development."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Road, river, and ol' boy politics
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Note
  • "Published by the Texas State Historical Association in Cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University of Texas at Austin"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-390) and index.
ISBN
0876112025 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2005014928
OCLC
  • OCM60557441
  • SCSB-5215808
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries