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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252696503321

Autore

Stanley Benjamin W

Titolo

Transparent Urban Development : Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix / / by Benjamin W. Stanley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-58910-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 297 p. 30 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Urban planning

City planning

Urban geography

Human geography

Environmental law

Environmental policy

Urban Studies/Sociology

Urbanism

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Human Geography

Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Theories of Urban Growth, Sustainability, and Transparent Development -- 2. The Speculative Growth Paradigm in the History of Phoenix -- 3. A History of Property Development and Ownership in Downtown Phoenix -- 4. The Political Economy of Land Speculation in Downtown Phoenix -- 5. Policy Approaches to Transparent Urban Development in Phoenix.

Sommario/riassunto

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.