Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents
Promises, Practices, and Geopolitics in U.S. City-Regions
Authors: Dierwechter, Y.
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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.
- About the authors
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YONN DIERWECHTER is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA.
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"This exceptionally well- written book represents an analysis of the recent history of growth management in the United States, considered as an important dimension of contested state territoriality. The argument presented here is wrapped up into wider debates about state re-scaling and the neo-liberalization of space, viz. the deregulation and flexibilization of urban-region planning and policy. At the same time, the book is a critique of a tendency to over-represent the politics of space in the American city-region as a neo-liberal politics. With an original integration of planning literatures with political geographical theory, the author unravels a variety of rationalities found in different planning regimes across the USA, drawing upon examples from Seattle-Tacoma, Baltimore, Portland, and Madison. Dierwechter s volume will be enriching for scholars at all levels in urban and political geography, city and regional planning, urban sociology as well as political science." - Andrew E.G. Jonas, Professor of Human Geography, Hull University, England
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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Pro-Growth, Anti-Growth, Smart Growth: Urban Growth Management for a “Usable Future”
Pages 15-41
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The Territorialities of the Smart Growth Paradigm: A Theoretical Framework
Pages 43-69
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Spatial Promises: Smart Goals for “Improved” Urban Growth Management
Pages 73-89
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Spatial Practices: Tools and Techniques in the Geopolitics of Urban Growth Management
Pages 91-119
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents
- Book Subtitle
- Promises, Practices, and Geopolitics in U.S. City-Regions
- Authors
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- Y. Dierwechter
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-61290-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230612907
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-7524-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-53588-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 292
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