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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794932803321

Titolo

Old Europe, New Suburbanization? : Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in European Suburbanization / / Nicholas A. Phelps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2017

ISBN

1-4426-1648-2

1-4426-1647-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustration, maps

Collana

Global Suburbanisms

Disciplina

307.76094

Soggetti

Suburbs - Europe

Urbanization - Europe

City planning - Europe

Municipal government - Europe

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Author Biographies; 1 Introduction: Old Europe, New Suburbanization?; 2 Madrid: The Making of a Global City Region and the Role of the Suburbs; 3 The Failure of Planning in a Fragmented Property Market: Poland's Model of Suburbanization; 4 O Sofia, Where Art Thou? Suburbs as Stories of Time and Space; 5 Ideology, Planning, and Meaning in Suburbia: Investigating the Case of Row House Areas; 6 The Changing Face of Athens: Development Pressures in the Maroussi and Kifissia Suburbs.

7 Old Wine in New Bottles: Land, Population Growth, and Montpellier's Suburban Face-off8 "In-betweens" in Time and Space: The Governance of Suburbanisms in the Ruhr; 9 City of Villages? Stasis and Change in London's Suburbs; 10 Between Farming Villages and Hedge-Fund Centres: The Politics of Urbanization in the Border Zone of the



Metropolitan Region of Zurich; 11 Conclusion: Old Europe, New Research Themes; Author Index; Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn't applicable to the wider world. Old Europe, New Suburbanization? takes us on a journey of rediscovery into some of Europe's oldest metropolises. The volume's contributors reveal the great variety of patterns and processes of urbanization that make Europe a fruitful ground for furthering the diversity of global suburbanisms. The effects of urban history found in such cities as Athens, London, Madrid, Montpellier, and Sofia, varies greatly due to the sheer variety of economic, industrial, land, and expansionist policies at play on the continent. This collection highlights the varied historical and geographical manifestations that have shaped urban areas and provides evidence for new processes of suburbanization."--