Transparent Urban Development
Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix
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Beschreibung
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.
Provides the first comprehensive, mixed methods study of land speculation and non-local property ownership Presents a novel definition of sustainable development rooted in ideals of transparency, local ownership, and dense urbanism Explores the history of property development in Phoenix to identify the social, economic, and policy barriers to constructing a more sustainably built environment Identifies tangible policy interventions to increase sustainability
Autor*in
Benjamin W. Stanley
Themen in »Transparent Urban Development«
Urban Sustainability Urban Planning Urban Development Sustainable Urban Growth Sustainable Urban Development Transparent Development Land Speculation Property Ownership Environmental Justice American Sunbelt Unsustainable Growth Urban Political Economy