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Jakle, John A. Rogers, Jefferson Sanford 2011-05-07T12:27:35Z 2011-05-07T12:27:35Z 10000-01-01 1995 Between 1973 and 1983, dozens of nonmetropolitan towns and counties in the Rocky Mountain West experienced rapid growth due to the development of energy resources and the construction of power generation facilities. After 1983, however, many of these energy-impacted communities went bust as energy producers abandoned, downsized, or completed their respective projects. Although the effects of the energy boom in the region have been studied extensively by scholars, the processes and impacts associated with the energy bust have not been fully examined. This study presents the case history of Rifle, Colorado, a town which was severely impacted by the rapid growth and sudden collapse of the oil shale industry during the early 1980s. The focus of this study is on Rifle's post-boom functional transformations and the organized efforts of its residents to restructure the local economy through a tourism-related project. A model, based on Allan Pred's theory of place, is introduced and utilized for a detailed sequential analysis of Rifle's transformation process. It is argued that this transformation of place is an agency-driven, proactive process. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:27:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9543707.pdf: 7665834 bytes, checksum: acfe88e6f746fcc46ecd9fb5a5396748 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:41:18Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:50-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9543707 (UMI)AAI9543707 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20061 eng Copyright 1995 Rogers, Jefferson Sanford History, United States Geography Sociology, Social Structure and Development The transformation of place: Boom, bust, and adjustment in Rifle, Colorado text University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. Geography Geography