Overview
Provides the first comprehensive, mixed methods study of land speculation and non-local property ownership
Presents a novel definition of sustainable development rooted in ideals of transparency, local ownership, and dense urbanism
Explores the history of property development in Phoenix to identify the social, economic, and policy barriers to constructing a more sustainably built environment
Identifies tangible policy interventions to increase sustainability
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation negatively impacted a concerted public-private effort to encourage infill construction on vacant land. The book elaborates urban sustainability not only as a set of ecological and design prescriptions, but as a field needing increased engagement with the growth-based impetus, structural economic forces, and political details behind American urban land policy. Demonstrating how land use policies evolved in relation to Phoenix’s historical dependence on outside investment, and are now interwoven across jurisdictional scales, the book concludes by identifying policy intervention points to increase the sustainability of Phoenix’s development trajectory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Benjamin W. Stanley is Instructor at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. His interdisciplinary research interests are split between urban sustainability, the contemporary political economy of land development, and comparative urban history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transparent Urban Development
Book Subtitle: Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix
Authors: Benjamin W. Stanley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58910-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58909-1Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86507-2Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58910-7Published: 19 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urbanism, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice