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Not to be confused with short-lived series ''[[Boomtown (TV)|Boomtown]]'', or [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E11 Boom Town|the Doctor Who episode]].

== Comic Books ==

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{{quote| '''Luke''': No way, we need to knock down some houses and build streets...<br />

'''Official''': Is that really necessary, Luke? The street is where accidents happen... }}

* In ''[[Tintin]] in America'', the discovery of oil in a piece of [[Injun Country]] leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour).

* In ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]] in America'', the discovery of oil in a piece of [[Injun Country]] leads to its overnight conversion into a bustling small city (the Indians are forced to leave within an hour).

== Film ==

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== Literature ==

* Grantville in the [[~~Sixteen Thirty Two|~~1632]] series. Like many small, rural towns dominated by one industry, it was shrinking and withering during the 1980s and 1990s... until a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] transplanted the town to central Germany during the [[Thirty Years War]]. The town suddenly found itself the most high-tech place in the world and its population mushroomed with refugees. Inhabitants have tried to maintain building codes and labor standards for all the new construction and industry, but the fact that they haven't always succeeded has been a plot point more than once.

* Grantville in the [[1632]] series. Like many small, rural towns dominated by one industry, it was shrinking and withering during the 1980s and 1990s... until a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] transplanted the town to central Germany during the [[Thirty Years War]]. The town suddenly found itself the most high-tech place in the world and its population mushroomed with refugees. Inhabitants have tried to maintain building codes and labor standards for all the new construction and industry, but the fact that they haven't always succeeded has been a plot point more than once.

** In the same series, Magdeburg is almost a boom town. Historically, the city was almost completely massacred during the war, but in the new timeline of the story it is being turned into a capital of a new empire.

* In ''A Town Like Alice'', the heroine turns a [[Ghost Town]] into a Boom Town with an application of money, enterprise, and motivation.