Suburban Governance : A Global View / Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamel, Pierre, 1947- editor.

Keil, Roger, 1957- editor.

Series:

Global suburbanisms.

Global Suburbanisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suburban Governance: A Global View is a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world's suburban spaces and everyday life within them.

Contents:

Introduction: Governance in a Suburban World / Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil

Section 1: Suburban Governance. 1. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance / Michael Ekers, Pierre Hamel, and Roger Keil

2. A Note on Governance: More Intervening Variables, Please / Robert Young.

Section 2: Suburban Governance in the Classical Anglo-Saxon Cases. 3. The United States: Suburban Imaginaries and Metropolitan Realities / Jan Nijman and Tom Clery

4. Modalities of Suburban Governance in Canada / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Elena Chou, and Kieran Williams

5. Governing Suburban Australia / Louise C. Johnson

6. Chicago-School Suburbanism / Jamie Peck.

Section 3: The Existing Alternatives. 7. Suburban Governance in Western Europe / Nicholas A. Phelps and Amparo Tarazona Vento

8. Suburbia in Three Acts: The East European Story / Sonia Hirt and Atanas Kovachev

9. Governing Shrinkage of Large Housing Estates at the Fringe / Sigrun Kabisch and Dieter Rink

10. Suburbanization in Latin America: Towards New Authoritarian Modes of Governance at the Urban Margin / Dirk Heinrichs and Henning Nuissl

11. On the Relations of Culture and Suburbia: How to Give Meaning to the Suburban Landscape? / Thomas Sieverts.

Section 4: The Emerging Models. 12. Africa's New Suburbs / Robin Bloch

13. Shifting Terrain: Questions of Governance in India's Cities and Their Peripheries / Shubhra Gururani and Burak Kose

14. Suburban Development and Governance in China / Fulong Wu and Jie Shen

15. Deconstructing the Decentralized Urban Spaces of the Mega-Urban Regions in the Global South / Terry McGee

16. Governing the Postcolonial Suburbs / Ananya Roy

Conclusion: Suburban Governance: Convergent and Divergent Dynamics / Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

9781442663572

144266357X

9781442663565

1442663561

OCLC:

905362036