| Yet the vibrant city of the 1950's that Mr. Johns so fondly recalls survives in an altered form in emergent cities that I call boomburbs. |
| He grew up outside Denver, in what is today Aurora — now one of those boomburbs — on a five-acre wheat farm where he and his eleven siblings helped his parents raise chickens, pigs, and cows. |
| Boomburbs have emerged in the wake of higher cost of living, congestion and lack of open spaces in cities, literally pushing any new development on the fringes of city-limits. |
