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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480070003321

Autore

Houston Serin D.

Titolo

Imagining Seattle : Social Values in Urban Governance / / Serin D. Houston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©[2019]

ISBN

1-4962-1607-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Collana

Our sustainable future

Disciplina

307.7609797/772

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Washington (State) - Seattle

Urban policy - Washington (State) - Seattle

Electronic books.

Seattle (Wash.) Economic conditions

Seattle (Wash.) Social conditions

Seattle (Wash.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Seattle, "The city of" -- Urban ambitions and anxieties: the quest for world-class status -- Exclusive inclusion: choosing sustainability and being green -- People, products, and processes: creativity as economic development -- Unsettling whiteness: the Race and Social Justice Initiative and institutional change -- Conclusion: "The city lives in us."

Sommario/riassunto

"Imagining Seattle is a study of social values in urban governance and the relationship of environmentalism, race relations, and economic growth in contemporary Seattle"--