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Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

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This chapter lays out the major themes and key debates associated with the now expansive scholarly literatures on urban sustainability and smart growth, respectively. The discussion highlights distinct interpretations of urban sustainability: state-progressive, radical-societal, and market-liberal. Smart growth is then discussed as a more concrete and largely state-progressive (rather than radical-societal or market-liberal) planning theory and policy doctrine that, in the US context at least, “spatializes” urban sustainability in ways that are legible in the institutional and discursive environment. Following Cooke’s (Theories of planning and spatial development, London, 1983) lead, I argue that we need to integrate the planning theory of smart growth with the wider pursuit of urban sustainability as an urban geopolitical project. Such a theoretical commitment, I suggest, might help us both to describe and to explain what I call in Chap. 3 the sustainable geographies of uneven smart growth in Greater Seattle—and perhaps beyond.

There will be no sustainable world without sustainable cities.

—Herbert Girardet (1999, p. 8)

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Notes

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    My interpretation of Polanyi sees him, with Somers and Block (2014), as closer to Keynes than Marx, emphasizing his work on socially embedded markets and economic democratization—all points Jamie Peck (2016) has taken up. But as Peck (p. 3) elsewhere cautions: “The extent to which Polanyi veered towards an anti-Marxist position, from midway through The Great Transformation into his postwar career … remains a controversial and contested one, since one can clearly be skeptical of teleological stage models and singular modes (and motors) of economic transformation—as indeed Polanyi was—without burning all bridges to varieties of Marxian political economy.” Suffice to say that, like Weber, Polanyi is a complex theorist, subject to multiple renderings and deployments.

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    Important early exceptions include the seminal work of Patrick Geddes, with his integrated concepts of civics, selective surgery, and the regional survey.

  3. 3.

    For Harvey (1985), the capitalist system involves investment in basic commodity production, which he calls accumulation in “the primary circuit” of the economy. In Harvey’s view, over-accumulation in the primary circuit is structurally inevitable and eventually forces more and more investors to look for alternative outlets to secure sufficient profits. Capital “switches” at this point to “the secondary circuit,” which includes the urban built-environment (e.g., real estate as well as loans to finance public infrastructure).

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Dierwechter, Y. (2017). Review: GeoPolitical Economies of Planning Space. In: Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54448-9_2

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