Description: Urban Sustainability Through Smart Growth : Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development Across Greater Seattle, Paperback by Dierwechter, Yonn, ISBN 3319853953, ISBN-13 9783319853956, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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. Th 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 th 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.
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Book Title: Urban Sustainability Through Smart Growth : Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development Across Greater Seattle
Number of Pages: X, 226 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Human Geography, Ecology, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2018
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Social Science, Science
Item Weight: 128.2 Oz
Author: Yonn Dierwechter
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: The Urban Book Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
