Erik Solevad Nielsen

Smart Growth Entrepreneurs

Partners in Urban Sustainability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs-innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying to manage their population and economic growth by implementing the design principles of Smart Growth and New Urbanism, developing green buildings that are compact, mixed-use, and in close proximity to transit services. How do innovators, governments, and markets interact in this planning and development process? The book profiles smart growth entrepreneurs and their projects in both Southern California and the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. The author highlights the unique obstacles, political and economic, that these actors encounter and details the centrality of markets and regulations in sustainable urban development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-82245-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9783319822457
• ISBN-10: 3319822454
• Artikelnr.: 53574488

Autorenporträt

Erik Solevad Nielsen is an urban and environmental sociologist at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research has focused on urban sustainability, political economy, information technology, and ethnic conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Markets, Governments, and Smart Growth .- Sprawl and Smart Growth .- Managing Urban Growth in Oregon and California .- The Smart Growth Machine: Coalitions of Entrepreneurs .-Smart Growth and the Great Recession .- Conclusion.