promises, practices, and geopolitics in U.S. city-regions /
Yonn Dierwechter.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
viii, 292 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.
Introduction -- Pro-growth, anti-growth, smart growth: urban growth management for a "usable" future -- The territorialities of the smart-growth paradigm: a theoretical framework -- Spatial promises: smart goals for "improved" urban growth management -- Spatial practices: tools and techniques in the geopolitics of urban growth management -- The Portland City-Region: excavating the "geopolitics of success" -- The Seattle-Tacoma City-Region: rescaling the spaces of fragmented places -- Greater Baltimore: hope through smart growth and the geopolitics of retreat -- Madison-Dane County: regionalizing the progressive tradition? -- Conclusions: after the "next step."
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"This book investigates urban growth management in the USA as a contested form of state territoriality. Synthesizing, interpreting, and contributing to literature on the history, theory, and practices of urban growth management, Diewechter's analysis offers critically theorized case studies of four U.S. "city-regions" located in four different growth management states."--Jacket.