{"product_id":"profiting-from-the-peak-john-harner-9781646423071","title":"Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs","description":"\u003cp\u003eColorado Springs, Colorado, has long profited from Pikes Peak and built an urban infrastructure to sustain that relationship. In \u003ci\u003eProfiting from the Peak\u003c\/i\u003e, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces. He examines the cultural values that have come to define the city, showing how military and other institutions, tourism, political and economic conditions, cultural movements, key individual actors, and administrative policies have created a singular urban personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapital accumulation has been a defining theme of Colorado Springs from its very beginning, with enormous profits generated from regional industrialization, railroads, land sales, water appropriation, and extraction of coal and gold. These conditions and its setting in the Rocky Mountain West formed a libertarian-oriented, limited governance philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e This persistent prioritization of liberty at the heart of Colorado Springs's identity, specifically the freedom to conduct business and generate profits in a relatively unconstrained setting, has directed the urban sprawl of the built landscape and molded the region's political culture. \u003ci\u003eProfiting from the Peak\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to historical and urban geographers, historians of Colorado and the American West, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the cultural identity of Colorado Springs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Harner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646423070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646423071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.51w x 0.71d","brand":"John Harner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945912336639,"sku":"9781646423071","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_164fd995-fb2f-40a5-af44-a7d54541bdc9.jpg?v=1681510460","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/profiting-from-the-peak-john-harner-9781646423071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}