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Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle

By: Yonn Dierwechter

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Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle

By: Yonn Dierwechter

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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Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

By: Tassilo Herrschel,Yonn Dierwechter

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Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

By: Tassilo Herrschel,Yonn Dierwechter

In recent years "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around what "smart" actually means, both theoretically and empirically, have emerged within the interdisciplinary arenas of urban and regional studies. This book explores the changes in discourse, rationality and selected responses of smartness through the theme of "transition." The concept of transition provides the broader context and points of reference for adopting smartness in reconciling competing interests and agendas in city-regional governance. Using case studies from around the world, including North America, Europe and South Africa, the authors link external regime transition in societal values and goals with internal moves towards smartness. While reflecting the growing integration of overarching themes and analytical concerns, this volume further develops work on smartness, smart growth, transition, city-regionalism, governance and sustainability. Smart Transitions in City Regionalism explores how smart cities and city regions interact with conventional state structures. It will be of great interest to postgraduates and advanced undergraduates across urban studies, geography, sustainability studies and political science.

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Routledge

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1317447816

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Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

By: Yonn Dierwechter

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Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

By: Yonn Dierwechter

Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States. This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. While practitioners and academics have lauded Seattle’s urban sustainability and climate action efforts for many years, the analysis here focuses especially on mounting political concerns with social equity, income polarization, and racial justice in a “high-tech” city-region already experiencing the deleterious effects of global climate change. Drawing on a framework first suggested by the Urban Climate Change Research Network, the discussion considers major research themes like mitigation and adaptation policies; Seattle’s regional, national and international participation in climate action networks; disaster risk reduction and risk assessment; and the impacts of climate change and climate policy formation on the city’s most disadvantaged populations. Climate Change and the Future of Seattle will, therefore, be of wider interest to scholars and students at all levels in urban planning, human geography, political science, urban studies, public administration, and sustainability studies.

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Anthem Press

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1785279467

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The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

By: Yonn Dierwechter

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The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

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The recent rise of cities in global environmental politics has stimulated remarkable debates about sustainable urban development and the geopolitics of a changing world order no longer defined by tightly bordered national regimes. This book explores this major theme by drawing on approaches that document the diverse histories and emergent geographies of “internationalism.” It is no longer possible, the book argues, to analyze the global politics of the environment without considering its various urbanization(s), wherein multiple actors are reforming, reassembling and adapting to nascent threats posed by global ecological decay. The ongoing imposition and abrasion of different world orders—Westphalian and post-Westphalian—further suggests we need a wider frame to capture new kinds of urbanized spaces and global green politics. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in global sustainability, urban development, planning, politics, and international affairs. Case studies and grounded examples of green internationalism in urban action ultimately explore how select city-regions like Cape Town, Los Angeles, and Melbourne are trying to negotiate and actually work through this postulated dilemma.

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Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle

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Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle

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Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

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Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents

Promises, Practices, and Geopolitics in U.S. City-Regions

By: Y. Dierwechter

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Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents

Promises, Practices, and Geopolitics in U.S. City-Regions

By: Y. Dierwechter

This book introduces, synthesizes, and evaluates spatial planning for growth management in the contemporary USA. It discusses the neglected relationship between the actual environmental results of various state growth management systems and the geographically diverse politics of discontent with these various systems.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403975248

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The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

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Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

By: Tassilo Herrschel,Yonn Dierwechter

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Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

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Book's by Yonn Dierwechter

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents

Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents

The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

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