Urban sustainability through smart growth : intercurrence, planning, and geographies of regional development across greater Seattle /: intercurrence, planning, and geographies of regional development across greater Seattle. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yonn Dierwechter.
• Authors: Dierwechter, Yonn
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 226 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 338.9797/772; 910; Geography; Sustainable development -- Washington (State) -- Seattle; City planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle; Community development -- Washington (State) -- Seattle; Regional planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development; City planning; Community development; Regional planning; Sustainable development; Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Sustainability; Economic geography; Physical geography & topography; Social issues & processes; Environmental economics; Sustainable development; Environmental economics; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Washington (State) -- Seattle; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319544489; 3319544489
• Related ISBNs: 9783319544472; 3319544470
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 7, 2017).
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