Shadows of a Sunbelt City : the Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin.

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half centuryÆs great urban successstoriesùa place that has grown enormously through ôcreative classö strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story b...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tretter, Eliot M.
Otros Autores: Cowen, Deborah, Heynen, Nik, Wright, Melissa W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Colección:Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
Temas:
University of Texas at Austin.
University of Texas at Austin
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Texas > Austin.
Racism > Texas > Austin.
Knowledge economy > Texas > Austin.
City planning > Texas > Austin.
Universities and colleges > Social aspects > Texas > Austin.
Universities and colleges > Environmental aspects > Texas > Austin.
Écologie urbaine > Texas > Austin.
Racisme > Texas > Austin.
Économie du savoir > Texas > Austin.
Universités > Aspect social > Texas > Austin.
City planning
Ecology
Economic history
Knowledge economy
Race relations
Racism
Universities and colleges > Environmental aspects
Universities and colleges > Social aspects
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Austin (Tex.) > Environmental conditions.
Austin (Tex.) > Race relations.
Austin (Tex.) > Economic conditions.
Texas > Austin
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Forces of Growth; CHAPTER 1 The Making of a Globalized Austin The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy; CHAPTER 2 The Value of Knowledge The Expansion of the University of Texas, Urban Renewal, and the Blackland; CHAPTER 3 Bringing In the State State Entrepreneurialism, the University, Land Development, and the High-Technology Sector; Part II: Urban Transformations; CHAPTER 4 Sustaining a Higher Quality of Life The Environment, Crime, and the Remaking of Austin's Downtown.
  • CHAPTER 5 Contesting Sustainability "Smart Growth" and the Redevelopment of Austin's East SideCHAPTER 6 What Is Past Is Prologue Urban Governance, Comprehensive Planning, and Political Reform; REFLECTIONS: Outside the Shadows; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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