Urban sustainability through smart growth : intercurrence, planning, and geographies of regional development across greater Seattle

• Main Author: Dierwechter, Yonn (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [Cham, Switzerland] : Springer, [2017]
• Series: Urban book series.
• Subjects: Sustainable development > Washington (State) > Seattle.; City planning > Washington (State) > Seattle.; Community development > Washington (State) > Seattle.; Regional planning > Washington (State) > Seattle.; Washington (State) > Seattle.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319544489; 9783319544472
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps

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-...

Table of Contents:

• 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.