Overview
- Provides a snapshot of smart growth entrepreneurs and emphasizes the centrality of market forces in sustainable urban development
- Uses interviews, plans and development from coastal cities in Southern California and the suburbs of Portland as case studies to determine how cities can grow more sustainably
- Uniquely highlights entrepreneurs and the specific institutional barriers they confront when they plan and build Smart Growth projects in cities and suburbs
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“This is a smart book about smart growth. Erik Nielsen does a superb job of demystifying the ‘new urbanism,’ providing a rich analysis of the underlying theories, illuminated by case studies of two regions that have sought to put theory into practice. Enthusiasts and skeptics alike will find this book an informative and reward insight into an important trend that is reshaping our cities.” (Richard Applebaum, Research Professor and MacArthur Chair of the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
“Nielsen thoughtfully examines an emerging group of professionals important in contemporary real estate development, providing specific evidence of the political and economic relevance of sustainability discourse and its ability to shape markets. This engagingly-written book locates these actors in their structural context, furthermore, revealing how their particular economic pursuits are constrained by the institutions they encounter. Scholars of urban and suburban development should take this book seriously, but so too should anyone interested in how cultural trends shape the political-economy of the built environment.” (Aaron Passell, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Barnard College, USA)
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Book Title: Smart Growth Entrepreneurs
Book Subtitle: Partners in Urban Sustainability
Authors: Erik Solevad Nielsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41027-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41026-5Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82245-7Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41027-2Published: 05 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 189
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy