Urban sustainability through smart growth : intercurrence, planning, and geographies of regional development across Greater Seattle / Yonn Dierwechter.

Author
Dierwechter, Yonn [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [Cham, Switzerland] : Springer, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
ix, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    This book investigates the new urban geographies of "smart" metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility. The book specifically explores Seattle within the wider space-economy and multi-scaled policy regime of the Puget Sound region as a whole, 'jumping up' from questions of city politics to concerns with what the book interprets as the "intercurrence" of city-regional "ordering." These theoretical terms capture the state-progressive effort to promote smarter forms of regional development but also the societal/institutional tensions and outright contradictions that such urban development invariably entails, particularly around problems of social equity. Key organizing themes in the text include: the historical path-dependencies of uneven economic and social development, particularly between Tacoma-Pierce County and Seattle-King County; current patterns of high-wage, medium-wage, and low-wage jobs; the emerging spatial and social structure of recent residential changes, especially with respect to class and race composition; and, finally, transit trends and new urban spaces associated with policy efforts to mitigate highway congestion and car-dependency. Greater Seattle, then, is mapped as a key US urban region inscribed spatially by the uneven search for a more sustainable order.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Chapter 1 Introduction: Problem, Argument, Themes
    • Chapter 2 Review: Geopolitical Economies of Planning Space
    • Chapter 3 Theory: A City-Regional Geography of Multiple Orders
    • Chapter 4 Methodology: Mixed-Methods Research Design
    • Chapter 5 History: An (Un)Sustainable Geo-History of Intercurrence
    • Chapter 6 Plans: Policy Geographies of Sustainable Growth
    • Chapter 7 Home: Residential Geographies of Contained (Re)Ordering
    • Chapter 8 Work: Labor Geographies of Smart(Er) Mobility
    • Chapter 9 General Conclusions: Contributions, Limitations, Agenda.
    ISBN
    • 3319544470
    • 9783319544472
    • 9783319544489 ((e-book))
    • 3319544489
    LCCN
    2017932633
    OCLC
    971225747
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