Serin D. Houston

Imagining Seattle (eBook, ePUB)

Social Values in Urban Governance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496216052
• Artikelnr.: 56680253

Autorenporträt

Serin D. Houston is an associate professor of geography and international relations at Mount Holyoke College.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Seattle, “The City of”
1. Urban Ambitions and Anxieties: The Quest for World-Class Status
2. Exclusive Inclusion: Choosing Sustainability and Being Green
3. People, Products, and Processes: Creativity as Economic Development
4. Unsettling Whiteness: The Race and Social Justice Initiative and
Institutional Change
Conclusion: “The City Lives in Us”
Appendix 1: Research Methods
Appendix 2: Recent Mayors of Seattle
Appendix 3: We’re So Green Lyrics
Notes
References
Index