Transparent Urban Development
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Transparent Urban Development

Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix

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eBook - PDF

Transparent Urban Development

Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Transparent Urban Development by Benjamin W. Stanley in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Urban Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319589091
eBook ISBN
9783319589107
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Urban Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Chapter 1: Theories of Urban Growth, Sustainability, and Transparent Development
  7. Chapter 2: The Speculative Growth Paradigm in the History of Phoenix
  8. Chapter 3: A History of Property Development and Ownership in Downtown Phoenix
  9. Chapter 4: The Political Economy of Land Speculation in Downtown Phoenix
  10. Chapter 5: Policy Approaches to Transparent Urban Development in Phoenix
  11. Index