The Life of North American Suburbs / Jan Nijman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nijman, Jan, Editor.

Series:

Global suburbanisms.

Global Suburbanisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--North America.

Suburbs.

Cities and towns--North America--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from New York to Vancouver, Atlanta to Chicago, Montreal to Phoenix, The Life of North American Suburbs traces the insightful connection between the evolution of suburbs and the cultural dynamics of modern society. Suburbs are uniquely significant spaces: their creation and evolution reflect the shifting demographics, race relations, modes of production, cultural fabric, and class structures of society at large. The case studies investigate the place of suburbs within their wider metropolitan constellations: the crucial role they play in the cultural, economic, political, and spatial organization of the city. Together, the chapters paint a compelling portrait of North American cities and their dynamic suburban landscapes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Maps, and Tables

Preface

1. Introduction: Elusive Suburbia

2. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa

3. Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries

4. Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami

5. Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region

6. The Strange Case of the Bay Area

7. Vancouverism as Suburbanism

8. Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis?

9. New York’s Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region

10. Diverging Racial Geographies in Phoenix’s Postwar and Post–Civil Rights Suburbs

11. Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the “Black Mecca”

12. Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan

13. Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago

14. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles

15. Reaching Suburbia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa

16. Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Canadian Cities

Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1247-3

1-4875-1246-5

OCLC:

1143615284