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Kansas City lies on both banks of the Missouri River, covering a land area of 310.8 sq mi. It is a community of wide, tree-lined streets and many parks. More than 200 fountains grace the city’s parks, public gardens, and parkways, while statues imported during the 1920s can be found along many boulevards. The city’s historic core is on the south bank of the river, while sections to the north have a suburban character. Numerous bridges connect the two sections of the city. Interstate highways encircle the central business district, known as the downtown loop. Downtown Kansas City has many of the art deco-style buildings and is the site of four massive steel sculptures that were installed in 1994 atop tall columns above the Bartle Convention Center. Between the downtown and the river to the north is the Kansas City River Market district, formerly called the River Quay, known for its renovated historic loft buildings, specialty restaurants, and nightclubs, as well as its bustling open-air farmers market. The Arabia Riverboat Museum is housed in one of the renovated buildings. Riverboat casinos are a relatively recent addition to the city’s waterfront, opening in the 1990s after the legalization of riverboat gambling. To the south of downtown, the restoration of Westport Square has turned another historic area of the city into a popular dining, entertainment, and shopping district. Further south is Country Club Plaza, one of the nation’s oldest shopping centers and modeled after the architecture of Seville, Spain. The Kansas City metropolitan area, known as Greater Kansas City, consists of 11 counties: Jackson, Clay, Cass, Platte, Lafayette, Ray, and Clinton counties in Missouri; and Johnson, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, and Miami counties in Kansas. The population of the region in 2000 was 1,776,000, up from 1,449,000 in 1980. The most intensely urbanized areas are the Missouri counties of Jackson and Clay along with Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The outlying counties are more rural and wooded, but they are changing rapidly as the geographic city grows and businesses, industries, and a greater percent of the population move to the urban fringe. In addition to Kansas City, the largest Missouri cities in the metropolitan region are Independence, (Missouri’s fourth largest city), Lees Summit, and Blue Springs, one of Missouri’s fastest growing commuter communities. Kansas City, Kansas, (the second largest city in Kansas) and Leavenworth are old established cities on the Kansas side. The fast-growing suburbs of Overland Park, Olathe, and Shawnee are expanding the urban area westward. During the 1950s and 1960s, Kansas City annexed large areas, so that today it completely surrounds some independent, incorporated cities, including both North Kansas City and Gladstone. | ||
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