ISBN: 9783319865072 - transparent urban development: building sustainability amid speculation in phoenix (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 297 pages. 8.27x5.83x0.72 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Transparent Urban Development | Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix | Benjamin W. Stanley | Taschenbuch | xvii | Englisch | 2018 | Springer | EAN 9783319865072 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …