Suburbanization in global society / edited by Mark Clapson, Ray Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clapson, Mark.

Hutchison, Ray.

Series:

Research in urban sociology ; 10.

Research in urban sociology, 1047-0042 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Suburbs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the post-industrial city). A majority of the world population lives in urban areas, most in suburban regions, including the shanty towns of Asia, favelas of South America, slums of Africa and banileue and inner-city suburbs of the developed nations. Suburbanization in Global Society presents new and innovative contributions in comparative suburban studies for urban regions, not just in Europe and the United States but also including emerging metropolitan regions in China, India and other areas of the world. This volume examines the emerging patterns of suburban development in metropolitan regions around the globe. Research is post-1945 with a particular focus upon social and cultural change in suburbanisation processes in developed as well as emerging urban countries.

Contents:

Introduction : suburbanization in global society / Mark Clapson, Ray Hutchison

Meaningful types in a world of suburbs / Richard Harris

Gwinnett goes global : the changing image of American suburbia / William Grady Holt

From mill towns to 'burbs of the burgh' : suburban strategies in the post-industrial metropolis / Allen Dieterich-Ward

Cities, suburbs and metropolitan areas : governing the regionalised city / Tassilo Herrschel

Urbanity beyond nostalgia : discovering public life at the edge of the city of Rome / Sandra Annunziata and Mara Cossu

Identity, marginalization, and Parisian banlieues / Jean Beaman

The life cycle of Johannesburg suburbs / Eric Petersen

Suburban reinvestment through 'knockdown rebuild' in Sydney / Simon Pinnegar, Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph

Changing urbanization patterns in the Brazilian metropolis / Suzana Pasternak, Lucia Maria Machado Bógus

Governing heterogeneity in the context of 'compulsory Closeness' : the 'pacification' of favelas / Leticia Veloso

The changing image of suburban areas in Latin America and the role of the local government / Sonia Roitman

The planned suburbanization of a city-state : Singapore's new towns / Rita Padawangi

Building for what and whom? New town development as planned suburbanization in China and India / Lan Wang, Ratoola Kundu, Xiangming Chen

Territorial expansion and state rescaling : a critique of suburbanization studies in China / Xuefei Ren.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612986901

9781282986909

1282986902

9780857243485

0857243489

OCLC:

699812787