Description: Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle Author(s): Yonn Dierwechter Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319544472, 978-3319544472 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth
Number of Pages: 226 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth: Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Economics, Geography & Geosciences, Sustainability
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 4794 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Yonn Dierwechter
Subject Area: Urban Planning, Family Sociology
Series: The Urban Book Series
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Hardcover
