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Article: Life in the big leagues. (economies of three North Carolina cities: Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham)(includes related article on airports)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Business North Carolina. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham became national players in the '80s. Can they still make the cut in the '90s?
In 1975 Al Stuart, a lanky young geographer in the department of geography and earth sciences at UNC-Charlotte, was absorbed in co-editing a book titled North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State. He recalls working on yellow legal pads in that pre-computer age and driving to the airport himself to pick up the first copies to deliver to local bookstores in time for Christmas. In the atlas that hit the shelves that December, in the chapter on urban areas, was the statement that North Carolina "has never had a dominant city."
Fast forward ...