A result of this building boom is visible, trickle-down prosperity in the town of some 20,000 people.
The most visible remnant of that boom can be seen in its architecture: it has one of the largest collection of Art Nouveau buildings in Europe.
In the summer of 2014, there seemed no visible end to a boom that had the state's politicians boasting of the "Texas miracle" of job creation.
Lima, Peru's capital of 8m people, is shedding its former air of provincial lassitude and turning into a bustling metropolis.The city is the visible face of a boom that has made Peru South America's fastest-growing economy (see chart).
While some analysts have worried about the impact that such dot-com fire sales are having on equipment makers like Cisco, Dell and Sun Microsystems, the most visible beneficiaries of the boom, many economists noted that the recycling of equipment has always been a part of the high-technology life cycle, in which most start-up companies either fail or are acquired.
THE economic boom is visible in the new housing seen in many older neighborhoods here, among them West Seattle, the birthplace of the city, where high-density housing is rising along the Puget Sound in the area where the first settlers landed in 1851.
Collins's trilogy is only the most visible example of a recent boom in dystopian fiction for young people.
The difference was that there were good times ahead, so that by the 2001 election the "Blair-Brown boom" was becoming visible.
He is both the greatest and most visible winner from an unprecedented boom era which spawned extraordinary levels of excess and which gave way to the worst bust since the 1930s.
This linear city is a buy-to-let paradise, an almost endless enfilade of green glass, terracotta and wavy roofs, the boom's most visible legacy in London, blocking and defining the river.
