Smart Growth and State Territoriality

Yonn Dierwechter

Urban Studies, 2013, vol. 50, issue 11, 2275-2292

Abstract: This paper draws on neo-Weberian traditions of social theory to consider smart growth as a territorial programme of the multiscaled state. Responding to recent efforts by scholars within interdisciplinary urban studies to re-engage with neo-Weberian concepts around urban growth and institutional politics, the discussion interprets the implementation of the smart growth doctrine in US metropolitan areas—for example Seattle-Tacoma, the city-region specifically explored here—as the ‘intercurrence’ of various state-ordering arrangements. A conceptual focus on intercurrence, a term derived directly from the work of Orren and Skowronek forges stronger links between planning studies and state theory and thus offers a new way to map political geographies of smart growth.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098013478230

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