Książka Imagining Seattle Serin D Houston

Imagining Seattle

Social Values in Urban Governance

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2021
strony
276
EAN
9781496224989
ISBN
1496224981
Enbook ID
35412059
Waga
408
Wymiary
152 x 229 x 16

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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in contemporary discourse and practice in American cities. Seattle has, by all accounts, been hugely successful in cultivating amenities that attract a creative class. But policies aimed at burnishing Seattle’s liberal reputation often unfold in ways that further disadvantage communities of color and the poor, complicating the city’s claims to progressive politics.

Through ethnographic methods and a geographic perspective, Houston explores a range of recent initiatives in Seattle, including the designation of a new cultural district near downtown, the push to charge for disposable shopping bags, and the advent of training about institutional racism for municipal workers. Looking not just at what these policies say but at how they work in practice, she finds that opportunities for social justice, sustainability, and creativity are all constrained by the prevalence of market-oriented thinking and the classism and racism that seep into the architecture of many programs and policies. Houston urges us to consider how values influence actions within urban governance and emphasizes the necessity of developing effective conditions for sustainability, creativity, and social justice in this era of increasing urbanization.

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