Endorsement
Sequel to Suburbia provides students of urban studies with a fresh perspective on the political economy of America's edge cities. It also provides analysts, policymakers, and design professionals with important insights about how suburban space might be reworked in the context of contemporary political regimes.
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Paul Knox, Virginia Tech, author of
Metroburbia, USA and
Cities and Design
From the Publisher
While most urbanists remain focused on the central city, Nicholas Phelps directs our attention to the contemporary American suburb whose recent metamorphoses and hybridizations challenge all traditional concepts of suburban and metropolitan form. His Sequel to Suburbia is both theoretically astute and thoroughly researched, and his findings will challenge us to reconsider places we thought we knew too well.
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Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan
How to rework the outer suburbs to function better in the present and future is a key challenge of the current period. Using highly engaging prose, Phelps explores this issue theoretically and practically, focusing on the huge political challenges faced by those wanting to make metropolitan-scale changes in the fragmented governmental system in the United States. Based on very interesting empirical work in three diverse and important suburban centers, the book is critical and yet cautiously hopeful about their eventual evolution.
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Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Sequel to Suburbia provides students of urban studies with a fresh perspective on the political economy of America's edge cities. It also provides analysts, policymakers, and design professionals with important insights about how suburban space might be reworked in the context of contemporary political regimes.
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Paul Knox, Virginia Tech, author of
Metroburbia, USA and
Cities and Design
