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Open Days - 9th European Week of Regions and Cities
Smart Growth as a Reformation of Urban and Regional Policy (Evidence from the US)
James W. ScottUniversity of Eastern [email protected]
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Objectives
•Understand how social agendas and sustainable urban development are being supported under complex political and economic conditions
•“De-code” urban reform in terms of a politics of space (political cultures, value systems, political-economic formations and planning traditions).
•Develop alternatives/complements to pre-defined “grand theory”
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Smart Growth as Incrementalist Urban Regeneration..•Piecing together of a more equitable agenda of sustainable development by working within and influencing market logics
•Developing a greater democratic self-consciousness in regard to urban life and the appropriation of urban spaces
•SG aims to change rules that define urban development logics and markets
•Aims to develop a forum for local social policies
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Practices: Smart Growth,“Rule Changing” and Coalitions (US case)•Regional visioning processes•Transit Oriented Development (TOD)•Collaborative policy development•Regionalism through fund-sharing and federal-local partnerships
•State government as policy advocate •Public-private-partnerships, intense private sector involvement
•Civil Society Involvement
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Portland and Smart Growth
•New concept of centrality
•Higher density activity zones in suburban areas
•Public-transit oriented growth
•Preservation of open space
•A mix of uses and living options in urban regions
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Affordable Neighbourhoods in Seattle
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Mixed Housing Options through ‘Value Capture’
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SG is Contested, Controversial
•On the right: “Public-choice” conservatives, libertarians and others see SG as an assault on basic American values and democracy (creeping socialism)
•On the left: SG is elitist and discriminatory movement that can be exposed as false reform: it raises housing prices for low-income groups, gentrifies core areas and excludes the underprivileged
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More Positively:
•A learning process is taking place; rules are changing with regard to zoning, regional planning, need for co-operation
•Changes in values also evident that are bringing social issues in to urban regeneration
•BUT a national urban agenda is needed that supports Smart Growth regionally
•Social equity requires intergovernmental solutions