found: Work cat.: 98004002: Ward, S.V. Selling places, the marketing and promotion of towns and cities, 1850-2000, 1998.
found: WWW, April 22, 1998(usage in titles: city promotion)
found: Tronrud, T. Guardians of progress : boosters & boosterism in Thunder Bay, 1879-1914, 1993:p. 3 ("The term 'boosterism', however, has a more precise meaning. For the historian it usually defines that philosophy of growth espoused by a relatively small sector of North American urban society most vigorously in the three or four decades preceding the First World War, and most particularly as a means of promoting a town or city.")
