By Yonn Dierwechter
This booklet investigates the hot city geographies of “smart” metropolitan regionalism around the better Seattle region and examines the connection among shrewdpermanent development making plans techniques and areas of labor, domestic, and mobility. The ebook particularly explores Seattle in the wider space-economy and multi-scaled coverage regime of the Puget Sound area as an entire, ‘jumping up’ from questions of urban politics to issues with what the e-book translates because the “intercurrence” of city-regional “ordering." those theoretical phrases seize the state-progressive attempt to advertise smarter kinds of local improvement but in addition the societal/institutional tensions and outright contradictions that such city improvement continually involves, really round difficulties of social fairness. Key organizing issues within the textual content comprise: the old path-dependencies of asymmetric monetary and social improvement, fairly among Tacoma-Pierce County and Seattle-King County; present styles of high-wage, medium-wage, and low-wage jobs; the rising spatial and social constitution of contemporary residential adjustments, specially with appreciate to category and race composition; and, eventually, transit tendencies and new city areas linked to coverage efforts to mitigate road congestion and car-dependency. larger Seattle, then, is mapped as a key US city quarter inscribed spatially via the asymmetric look for a extra sustainable order.
Historically-sensitive, theoretically-informed and empirically topical, this publication is of curiosity to students and scholars in any respect degrees in neighborhood making plans, city geography, political technology, sustainability reports, city sociology and public policy.
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Paul, Minnesota, for example, to growing ethnic diversity. They worry that, the city is fragmented along multiple dimensions at multiple geographic scales. Its significant racial and ethnic cleavages do not correspond to political units for urban governance—units that form a basis for citizen involvement and community development within the city. The governance structure in fact reinscribes or reinforces economic inequalities across the urban landscape, even as it enables some areas to foster a district-wide political and social identity that partially transcends significant racial and ethnic fragmentation (p.
That said, as shown in Fig. , with “bringing the city back in” (Beauregard, 1990). Attentive to procedural issues and challenges like development control and collaborative decision-making, smart growth seeks mainly to spatialize urban sustainability goals through deliberate(d), more predictable, and hopefully high-quality densification of (re)development activities in new and established communities, preferably near public transport that is distant from ecologically vulnerable areas like farms, critical habitats and forests.
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