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This book investigates urban growth management in the USA as a contested form of state territoriality. Synthesizing, interpreting, and contributing to literature on the history, theory and practices of urban growth management, the analysis offers critically theorized case studies of four ‘city-regions’ located in four different growth management states.”
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Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents This page intentionally left blank Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents Promises, Practices, and Geopolitics in U.S. City-Regions Yonn Dierwechter URBAN GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ITS DISCONTENTS Copyright © Yonn Dierwechter, 2008. All rights reserved. First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-10: 1-4039-7524-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-7524-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dierwechter, Yonn. Urban growth management and its discontents : promises, practices, and geo-politics in u.s. city regions / Yonn Dierwechter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-4039-7524-8 1. Cities and towns—United States—Growth. 2. City planning— United States. 3. Regional planning—United States. 4. Geopolitics— United States. 5. Local government—United States. 6. Municipal government—United States. I. Title. HT384.U5D54 2008 307.760973–dc22 2007051217 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Westchester Book Group First edition: July 2008 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. Contents Preface vii List of Figures ix List of Tables xi 1 1 Introduction I History and Theory 2 3 II 4 5 Pro-Growth, Anti-Growth, Smart Growth: Urban Growth Management for a “Usable Future” 15 The Territorialities of the Smart Growth Paradigm: A Theoretical Framework 43 Goals and Tools 7 8 71 Spatial Promises: Smart Goals for “Improved” Urban Growth Management 73 Spatial Practices: Tools and Techniques in the Geopolitics of Urban Growth Management 91 III Case Studies 6 13 121 The Portland City-Region: Excavating the “Geopolitics of Success” 125 The Seattle-Tacoma City-Region: Rescaling the Spaces of Fragmented Places 153 Greater Baltimore: Hope through Smart Growth and the Geopolitics of Retreat 185 vi 9 10 ● Contents Madison-Dane County: Regionalizing the Progressive Tradition? 213 Conclusions: After the “Next Step” 237 Notes 249 References 255 Index 287 Preface The origins of this book emerged out of the broad intellectual transitions a person sometimes makes when traveling between different places that simultaneously represent distinct phases in one’s life. Specifically, the general idea for something like this book—where space, planning, politics, and city-regions might be held together in one research project— formed loosely in my mind during a crowded flight from London to Seattle, just after I had completed my doctorate on the new geographies of urban planning in post-apartheid Cape Town, particularly as these geographies intersect