Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle /

• Main Author: Dierwechter, Yonn (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: The Urban Book Series,
• Subjects: Geography.; Economic geography.; Urban geography.; Environmental geography.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Sustainable Development.; Economic Geography.; Environmental Geography.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Environmental Economics.

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 an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Problem, Argument, Themes
• Chapter 2 Review: Geopolitical Economies of Planning Space
• Chapter 3 Theory: A City-Regional Geography of Multiple Orders
• Chapter 4 Methodology: Mixed-Methods Research Design
• Chapter 5 History: An (Un)Sustainable Geo-History of Intercurrence
• Chapter 6 Plans: Policy Geographies of Sustainable Growth
• Chapter 7 Home: Residential Geographies of Contained (Re)Ordering
• Chapter 8 Work: Labor Geographies of Smart(Er) Mobility
• Chapter 9 General Conclusions: Contributions, Limitations, Agenda.