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- Provides a topical, comprehensive, and theoretically-informed analysis of smart growth and urban sustainability
- Analyzes the development of sustainability as a planned and deliberated search to mitigate economic inequality, class segregation, low-density residential sprawl, and automobile dependency
- Takes a regional approach to mapping urban sustainability and smart growth
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.Authors and Affiliations
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Urban Studies Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma, USA
Yonn Dierwechter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth
Book Subtitle: Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle
Authors: Yonn Dierwechter
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54448-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54447-2Published: 03 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85395-6Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54448-9Published: 24 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Economic Geography, Environmental Geography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Environmental Economics