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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826122503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-6357-X

1-4426-6356-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Collana

Global Suburbanisms

Disciplina

307.74

Soggetti

Suburbs

Urbanization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.