Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia

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279 aesthetics, as environmental concern, 38–41, 47, 83, 107–10, 113 AFL-CIO, 2 African Americans: in Central District, 68, 70; and Model Cities program, 78, 150; segregation of, 69 Afro American Journal (newspaper), 75–76 agriculture: alternative, 136, 140, 142–45, 173–79; consolidation in, 27, 131–32, 246n18; Nixon’s farm policy, 131, 179; in Seattle’s environs, 22–30; Vietnam War refugees and, 176, 179. See also food production and consumption; gardens Alcatraz Island, 100, 123, 260n76 Alcyone Apartments, 231–34, 235, 276n56 Aliesan, Jody, 180–83, 186, 192, 204–11, 234–35 Alinsky, Saul, 135, 224 Allen, Paul, 227, 229–34, 236, 276n49 Allen, Tom, 143 Alliance for a Living Market and the City, 63 Allied Arts, 38, 47, 129, 248n59, 259n60 Alpine Club, 259n60 Alternative Finance, 152 Amazon.com, 29 American Association of University Women, 209 American Indians. See Native Americans American Institute of Architects, 129, 259n60 Apocalyption Reconstruction Company, 142 Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program , 180, 205–6 Arts and Crafts movement, 192 Asian Americans, 70, 167. See Filipino Americans Asian Family Affair (newspaper), 194 Audubon Society, 12, 70, 102. See also Seattle Audubon Society Auroville, India, 158 Bakery Building, Pike Plaza Redevelopment Project, 45 Ballard neighborhood, 97 ballot initiative, concerning Pike Place Market, 58–64 Banks, Isaac, 85–89, 93 Barter Fair, 148 Bassetti, Fred, 215, 274n17 Battle in Seattle, 1–8, 240n11 Battle of Seattle (1856), 240n11 beauty, as environmental concern. See aesthetics, as environmental concern Bellevue suburb, 27 Bender, Steve, 201 Berry, Wendell, 134–36, 154, 262n17 Index Note: Page numbers in italic type indicate photographs or illustrations. 280 I n d e x Better Communities Act, 194 bioregionalism, 133–34, 139, 142, 147, 263n42 biotechnology industry, 229–31, 233 Black Duck Motors, 152 Black Panther Party, 123, 165, 255n6 Black Power, 75, 76 blight, 35–36, 73, 80, 97, 195, 197. See also urban renewal block grants, 97, 162, 195, 224 Bocking, Stephen, 114 Boeing, 18, 19, 25–30, 32, 35, 55–57, 133 Bogue, Virgil, 217 Boldt decision, 258n49 Bon Marché, 31, 34 Borden Chemical Company, 28 Bower, Diana, 83–84, 167–68, 188 Braman, J. D., 58 Brand, Stewart, 138, 224, 274n19 Brewster, David, 60–61, 228 Bullitt family, 38 Bumbershoot arts festival, 188 bungalows, 192, 199 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 117 CA. See Central Association of Seattle Caddy, Peter, 135 Callahan, Kenneth, 16 Callenbach, Ernest, 185, 268n9; Ecotopia, 139–40, 181 Calthorpe, Peter: Next American Metropolis , 220–21; Sustainable Communities, 220 Caltin, John, 212 CAMP. See Central Area Motivation Project Capitol Hill Food Co-op, 143 Capitol Hill neighborhood, 152, 156, 188, 189–90 Carlson, Dan, 143 Carpenters (music group), 131 Carson, Rachel, 82, 114 Carter, Jimmy, 203 Cascade Community Council, 223–24, 226 Cascade neighborhood, 215–18, 216–17, 223–34, 228, 275n22, 276n36 Cascade Neighborhood Council, 223–24, 226 Cascade Residents Action Group (CRAG), 226 Cascadian Farm, 178, 188 Central Area Motivation Project (CAMP), 76–78, 84, 90, 91, 93 Central Association of Seattle (CA), 18, 31–37, 39–40, 43–47, 50, 53, 55, 58–64, 132, 247n38 Central District, 65–98; activism in, 10–11, 65, 70–71; conditions in, 67–68; demographics of, 52, 67–68, 70; Ecotope and, 189–90; government relations with, 67, 88; housing in, 52, 67–68; identity of, 68, 70; Model Cities program in, 70, 76, 78; riots in, 56 Central Freeway, 18, 32–33 Central Washington University, 134–35 Century 21. See Seattle World’s Fair (1962) CFLP. See Citizens for Fort Lawton Park Chamber of Commerce, 31, 56–57, 60, 104 Chapman, Bruce, 151, 264n61 Chinatown, 164. See also International District Chinese Americans, 68, 78 Chinese Community Chamber of Commerce , 91 Chopp, Frank, 200, 224, 226, 234 cities: ecotopians and, 142–45, 148–49; gardens in, 148–49, 158–64; Native Americans and, 117; nature in relation to, 21–31, 54, 62–63, 105, 110–11, 232, 276n58. See also urban development Citizens for Fort Lawton Park (CFLP), 102–3, 113, 118–21, 123 citizens’ movements: broadening of, 52; and environmentalism, 11; localism of, 195–96; Model Cities program’s influence on, 11, 67, 74–77, 81, 96, 98, 167; neighborhood , 194, 196–97; New Federalism and, 194–95; Pike Place Market and, 21 City Beautiful movement, 110, 149 civil rights movement: environmental movement and, 8, 71; in Seattle, 75 Clapp, Norton, 57 class. See middle class cleanup efforts, 86, 95 Clinton, Bill, 1 Cohen, Lizabeth, 9, 27, 272n76 Colebrook, Binda, 154 Committee for...