Suburban constellations : governance, land and infrastructure in the 21st century / Roger Keil [ed.].

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Foundations -- Suburbanization in the Twenty-First-Century World / Terry McGee -- Governance and Global Suburbanisms / Pierre Hamel -- How Land Markets Make and Change Suburbs / Richard Harris -- The Infrastructure Is the Message: Shaping the Suburban Morphology and Lifestyle / Pierre Filion -- We're a Long Way from Levittown, Dorothy: Everyday Suburbanism as a Global Way of Life / Danielle Labbe -- Hiking the Mexico Periphery / Feike De Jong -- 2.Themes -- FlexSpace -- Suburban Forms / Ute Lehrer -- Suburban Redevelopment: Decline and Renewal in Toronto's In-between City / Douglas Young -- Suburban Boundaries: beyond Greenbelts and Edges / Rob Shields -- Automobiles, Highways, and Suburban Dispersion / Pierre Filion -- Beyond the Networked City? Suburban Constellations in Water and Sanitation Systems / Sophie Schramm -- Suburbs at Risk / Donald Brown -- Walking out of Montreal / Roger Keil -- 3.Essays and Images -- Suburbanization and the Remaking of Metropolitan Canada / Pablo Mendez -- Highrise / Katerina Cizek -- A City of Rivers and Broken Side Mirrors / Nathan Schaffer -- Making Them Talk, Then Act, Together! The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group / Roger Keil -- Khodinskoe Field Development, Moscow / Ogino Knauss -- Fort McMurray, the Suburb at the End of the Highway / Claire Major -- Walking out of Tallinn / Roger Keil -- 4.Regions -- Suburbanisms in Africa? / Alan Mabin -- The American Suburb as Utopian Constellation / Jan Nijman -- Latin America at the Urban Margin: Socio-Spatial Fragmentation and Authoritarian Governance / Henning Nuissl -- Global Suburbanisms: Navigating by the Constellation of Europe / Nicholas A. Phelps -- On Capital's Edge: Gurgaon, India's Millennial City / Shubhra Gururani -- Chinese Suburban Constellations: The Growth Machine, Urbanization, and Middle-Class Dreams / Fulong Wu -- Desire, Dryness, and Decadence: Living Big in Australia's Suburbs / Louise C. Johnson -- Escape from the Burbs? / Roger Keil.

In a world of cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. Global sprawl engulfs us but it does so in remarkably differentiated ways. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America remain the "classical case," there are now many other forms of suburbanism around the globe. The high rise housing estates around many European and Canadian cities, the belts and wedges of squatter settlements in the global south, the burgeoning megacity peripheries between Istanbul and Shanghai and the technopoles and edge cities in all corners of the world are all part of a pervasive trend towards global suburbanisms. This book provides a first account of this global development. 22 of the most well-known global urban scholars analyze the multiple manifestations of suburbanization and suburbanism. They are joined by artistic and illustrative contributions. Overviews of suburbanization trends in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia complete 'Suburban Constellations'.