Suburban Governance: A Global View (Global Suburbanisms) - Softcover

Pierre Hamel; Roger Keil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442614005 ISBN 13: 9781442614000

Publisher: Toronto University Press, 2015

Synopsis

North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges. In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled 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. With contributors from ten countries on five continents, this collection covers the full breadth of contemporary developments in suburban governance. Examining the classic North American model of suburbia, contemporary alternatives in Europe and Latin America, and the emerging suburbanisms of Africa and Asia, Suburban Governance offers a strong analytical introduction to a vital topic in contemporary urban studies.

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Review:

'Many of the book's essays offer rewarding and provocative overviews of suburban development in particular countries and regions and deserve to be read by anyone interested in the diverse ways in which suburbanization is changing our world.'

- Andrew Sancton - Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015

'The authors of this book should be applauded for providing us with a volume that stimulates discussion on the meaning of the (sub) urban and governance in today's global (sub)urbanization.'

- Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research October 2016

'I would advise anyone interested in understanding suburban processes in a global context to read this book.'

- Bernadette Hanlon - Journal of Planning Education and Research vol 37:01:2017

About the Author:

Pierre Hamel is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universite de Montreal. Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University and the principal investigator of Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Toronto University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1442614005
• ISBN 13: 9781442614000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Pierre Hamel