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Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth - Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth - Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: The Urban Book Series
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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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