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Environmental city? The historical emergence of Austin's environmental meaning.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environmental city? The historical emergence of Austin's environmental meaning.
Author:	Swearingen, William Scott, Jr.
Description:	264 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Peter Ward.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 0633.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-02A.
Subject:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9825103
ISBN:	0591775409

Environmental city? The historical emergence of Austin's environmental meaning.
Swearingen, William Scott, Jr.

Environmental city? The historical emergence of Austin's environmental meaning.[electronic resource] - 264 p.

Adviser: Peter Ward.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

Contemporary urban theory suggests there is a cultural variable called urban meaning that influences the political economy of urban growth. Most urbanists discuss ideologies of growth as the typical meaning of the city that is promoted by growth actors. However, there are some fertile questions left unasked about urban meanings. Why might any meaning arise to contest the meaning of growth? What variables might affect the specific kind of meaning that arises? What efficacy might alternative meanings have in shaping the design of a city? This study addresses these questions by documenting the historical creation of Austin's environmental meaning. The environmental meaning arose over time as an interaction between the demography of Austin, the bureaucratic structure of its administration, its local electoral politics, the national environmental movement, and the built and unbuilt landscape of the city. The efficacy of the environmental meaning is found in the city's development regulations, political elections, and the creation of a landscape that builds the natural into the urban. I conclude the study with an attempt to synthesize concepts from political sociology and social geography to suggest a more complete theory of urban meanings.

ISBN: 0591775409Subjects--Topical Terms:

212432
Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

Environmental city? The historical emergence of Austin's environmental meaning.
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