Suburban Constellations: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century

by Roger Keil (Editor)

Overview

In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America continue to proliferate, many other forms of suburbanization are now emerging around the globe. The highrise housing estates around many European and Canadian cities; the belts and wedges of squatter settlements in the global south; the burgeoning megacity peripheries between Istanbul and Shanghai; and the technopoles and edge cities in different corners of the world—all are a part of a pervasive trend toward global suburbanism. Suburban Constellations provides a first account of this global development. Twenty-two of the most well-known global urban scholars analyze the multiple manifestations of suburbanization, alongside artistic and illustrative contributions. Overviews of suburban trends in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia complete this ambitious volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783868592313
Publisher:	JOVIS
Publication date:	10/31/2013
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Roger Keil 6

Welcome to the Suburban Revolution Roger Keil 8

1 Foundations

Suburbanization in the Twenty-First-Century World Terry McGee 18

Governance and Global Suburbanisms Pierre Hamel 26

How Land Markets Make and Change Suburbs Richard Harris 33

The Infrastructure Is the Message: Shaping the Suburban Morphology and Lifestyle Pierre Filion 39

We're a Long Way from Levittown, Dorothy: Everyday Suburbanism as a Global Way of Life Lisa Drummond Danielle Labbé 46

Hiking the Mexico Periphery Feike De Jong 52

2 Themes

FlexSpace - Suburban Forms Ute Lehrer 58

Suburban Redevelopment: Decline and Renewal in Toronto's In-between City Douglas Young 63

Suburban Boundaries: beyond Greenbelts and Edges Roger Keil Rob Shields 71

Automobiles, Highways, and Suburban Dispersion Pierre Filion 79

Beyond the Networked City? Suburban Constellations in Water and Sanitation Systems Jochen Monstadt Sophie Schramm 85

Suburbs at Risk Robin Bloch Nikolaos Papachristodoulou Donald Brown 95

Walking out of Montreal Roger Keil 102

3 Essay and Images

Suburbanization and the Remaking of Metropolitan Canada Markus Moos Pablo Mendez 106

Highrise Katerina Cizek 118

A City of Rivers and Broken Side Mirrors Nathan Schaffer 128

Making Them Talk, Then Act, Together! The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group Sean Hertel Roger Keil 130

Khodinskoe Field Development, Moscow: ogino: knauss 137

Fort McMurray, the Suburb at the End of the Highway Claire Major 143

Walking out of Tallinn Roger Keil 150

4 Regions

Suburbanisms in Africa? Alan Mabin 154

The American Suburb as Utopian Constellation Jan Nijman 161

Latin America at the Urban Margin: Socio-Spatial Fragmentation and Authoritarian Governance Dirk Heinrichs Henning Nuissl 170

Global Suburbanisms: Navigating by the Constellation of Europe Nicholas A. Phelps 176

On Capital's Edge: Gurgaon, India's Millennial City 1 Shubhra Gururani 82

Chinese Suburban Constellations: The Growth Machine, Urbanization, and Middle-Class Dreams Fulong Wu 190

Desire, Dryness, and Decadence: Living Big in Australia's Suburbs Louise C. Johnson 195

Escape from the Burbs? Roger Keil 200

Contributors 202