URBAN GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ITS DISCONTENTS – Promises, Practices, and Geo-politics in U.S.City Regions

Copyright . Yonn Dierwechter, 2008.

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ISBN-10: 1-4039-7524-8

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Dierwechter, Yonn.

Urban growth management and its discontents : promises, practices, and

geo-politics in u.s. city regions / Yonn Dierwechter.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-4039-7524-8

1. Cities and towns—United States—Growth. 2. City planning—

United States. 3. Regional planning—United States. 4. Geopolitics—

United States. 5. Local government—United States. 6. Municipal

government—United States. I. Title.

HT384.U5D54 2008

307.760973–dc22 2007051217

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Contents

Preface vii

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xi

1 Introduction 1

I History and Theory 13

2 Pro-Growth, Anti-Growth, Smart Growth: Urban Growth

Management for a “Usable Future” 15

3 The Territorialities of the Smart Growth Paradigm:

A Theoretical Framework 43

II Goals and Tools 71

4 Spatial Promises: Smart Goals for “Improved” Urban Growth

Management 73

5 Spatial Practices: Tools and Techniques in the Geopolitics

of Urban Growth Management 91

III Case Studies 121

6 The Portland City-Region: Excavating the “Geopolitics

of Success” 125

7 The Seattle-Tacoma City-Region: Rescaling the Spaces of

Fragmented Places 153

8 Greater Baltimore: Hope through Smart Growth and the

Geopolitics of Retreat 185

9 Madison-Dane County: Regionalizing the

Progressive Tradition? 213

10 Conclusions: After the “Next Step” 237

Notes 249

References 255

Index 287