Urban sustainability through smart growth : intercurrence, planning, and geographies of regional development across greater Seattle / Yonn Dierwechter.
Dierwechter, Yonn, author.
2017
HC108.S438
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Title Urban sustainability through smart growth : intercurrence, planning, and geographies of regional development across greater Seattle / Yonn Dierwechter.
Author Dierwechter, Yonn, author.
ISBN 9783319544489 (electronic book)
3319544489 (electronic book)
9783319544472
3319544470
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54448-9
Published [Cham, Switzerland] : Springer, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-54448-9 doi
Call Number HC108.S438
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.9797/772
910
Summary 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. Historically-sensitive, theoretically-informed and empirically topical, this book is of interest to scholars and students at all levels in regional planning, urban geography, political science, sustainability studies, urban sociology and public policy.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Urban book series.
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Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Problem, Argument, Themes; 1.1 Approaching the Bottleneck; 1.2 Intercurrence as Description and Explanation; 1.3 Rain Without Thunder? Greater Seattle as Smarter City-Region; 1.4 Structure of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Review: GeoPolitical Economies of Planning Space; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Urban Sustainability; 2.2.1 The State-Progressive Tradition; 2.2.2 The Green-Red Radical Dissent of Post-capitalism; 2.2.3 The Liberal Case: Unleashing Markets on Ecology; 2.2.4 Progressive Rejoinder(s): From "Weak" to "Strong" Eco-modernization.

2.3 Shifting Political Economies of Change2.4 Smart Growth; 2.4.1 Normative Planning Theory; 2.4.2 Smart Aspirations, Territorialized Spaces; 2.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Theory: A City-Regional Geography of Multiple Orders; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 American Political Development and Urban Growth; 3.3 Smart Growth and the Geography of "Multiple Orders' 3.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Methodology: Mixed-Methods Research Design; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 "Abductive" Research Epistemology; 4.3 Analytical Framework: Questions, Claims, Data.

4.4 Modes of Analysis and Discursive Representation4.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: History: An (Un)sustainable Geo-History of Intercurrence; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Colonialism and the Origins of Dispossession; 5.3 Political Order I: Segregated Accumulation; 5.4 Political Order II: Progressive State-Reformism; 5.4.1 Fighting for Regional Transit Alternatives; 5.4.2 The 'Environmentalization ́of Growth Policy; 5.5 Political Order III: Just resiliency as counter-movement; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Plans: Policy Geographies of Sustainable Growth.

6.1 Introduction: The Practices of Theory6.2 Plans as Intentional Policy Spaces; 6.3 Leveraging Smarter Patterns: Growth Plans in Snoqualmie; 6.4 Forging Sustainable Connectivity: Light Rail Expansion in Tacoma; 6.5 Designing Compactness, Choice, and Mix: Seattleś Yesler Terrace; 6.6 Encouraging Participatory and Efficient Regulatory Processes; 6.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Home: Residential Geographies of Contained (Re)ordering; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Sprawl, Containment, and Segregation; 7.3 Exploring "Smart Containment' Through Residential Permit Data.

7.4 A Comparative City-Regional Overview7.5 Spaces: Mapping Socio-Spatially Variegated Smart Growth; 7.6 On the Ground: Regional (Un)sustainabilities of Smart Growth; 7.7 Sustaining Society, Segregating Smartness, Sustaining Segregation?; 7.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: Work: Labor Geographies of Smart(er) Mobility; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Labor Space: Wealth and Poverty Across the Greater City-Region; 8.3 Shifting Greater Seattle's Mobility: Transit in Labor Space; 8.3.1 Conclusions; References; Chapter 9: General Conclusions: Contributions, Limitations, Agenda.

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