Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures : Contemporary International Cases / Pierre Filion, Nina M. Pulver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filion, Pierre, editor.

Pulver, Nina M., editor.

Series:

Global suburbanisms.

Global Suburbanisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--Developed countries--Case studies.

Suburbs.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Developing countries.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Developed countries.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South. Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: low-density infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations, Figures, and Tables

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Scope and Scales of Suburban Infrastructure / Filion, Pierre / Keil, Roger / Pulver, Nina M.

SECTION 1. Situating Suburban Infrastructures

2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure? / Addie, Jean-Paul D.

3. Rescaling the Suburban: New Directions in the Relationship between Governance and Infrastructure / Morphet, Janice

4. Financial Infrastructures of Suburbanism: From Suburbanization to Value Extraction / Walks, Alan

SECTION 2. Suburban Infrastructures in Crisis

5. Phases of Neoliberal Infrastructure: Test Zones of Post-Soviet Europe / Peters, Frederick

6. "Designed to Fail": Technopolitics of Sewage in India's Urban Periphery / Gururani, Shubhra

7. Governance by Crises and Failing Infrastructure in Michigan: The 21st-Century Republican Strategy / Vojnovic, Igor / Kotval-K, Zeenat / Eckert, Jeanette / Li, Xiaomeng

8. Infrastructure Interludes: Sociotechnical Disposition and Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems in the Stockholm Archipelago / Rutherford, Jonathan

9. Suburban Constellations of Water Supply and Sanitation in Hanoi / Schramm, Sophie / Wright-Contreras, Lucía

SECTION 3. Reshaping Suburban Infrastructures

10. The "In-Between Territories" of Suburban Infrastructure Politics / Wachsmuth, David

11. Recentralization and Green Infrastructures: Seeking Compatibility between Alternatives to North American Suburban Development / Saboonian, Sara / Filion, Pierre

12. "Greenfrastructure": The Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt as Urban Boundary? / Macdonald, Sara / Lynch, Lucy

13. Building on Quicksand: Infrastructural Megaprojects in China / Ren, Xuefei

14. Retrofitting Obsolete Suburbs: Networks, Fixes, and Divisions / Ince, Rebecca / Marvin, Simon

15. The Uneven Outcomes of Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Planning: The Case of Montreal and Vancouver Commuters / Moos, Markus / Woodside, Jonathan

16. Conclusion: Unified and Diverse Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures / Filion, Pierre / Pulver, Nina M.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-3123-0

1-4875-3122-2

OCLC:

1099434818