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International Perspectives on Suburbanization N. Phelps

International Perspectives on Suburbanization By N. Phelps

International Perspectives on Suburbanization by N. Phelps


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New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This book examines the processes of post-suburbanization in international perspective, exploring how developments across the world might be considered post-suburban.

International Perspectives on Suburbanization Summary

International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World? by N. Phelps

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This book examines the processes of post-suburbanization in international perspective, exploring how developments across the world might be considered post-suburban.

About N. Phelps

DAVID BIERI Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan, USA MARCO BONTJE Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands JOACHIM BURDACK Professor for Geography at the University of Leipzig, Germany and head of department at the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) ELISABETH CHAVES PhD candidate in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA ALLAN COCHRANE Professor of Urban Studies at the Open University, UK TOMMY FIRMAN Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Policy Development at the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia OLEG GOLUBCHIKOV Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK DIRK HEINRICHS Senior Researcher at the Institute of Transport Research of the German Aerospace Centre in Berlin, Germany ANDREW E.G. JONAS Professor Human Geography at the University of Hull, UK ROGER KEIL Director of the City Institute at York University and Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada PAUL L. KNOX University Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow for International Advancement at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA YONG-SOOK LEE Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration, Korea University MICHAEL LUKAS PhD student at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig and the Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Germany ALLA MAKHROVA Principal research fellow at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia HENNING NUISSL Professor of Applied Geography and Town Planning at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin and a visiting research fellow with the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig, Germany NICHOLAS PHELPS Professor of Urban and Regional Development at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK SONIA ROITMAN Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Latin American Institute, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany HAERAN SHIN Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK ANDRE SORENSEN Associate Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Geography and Programme in Planning, University of Toronto, Canada JON C. TEAFORD Professor Emeritus of History at Purdue University, USA FULONG WU Professor of East Asian Planning and Development at the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK DOUGLAS YOUNG Assistant Professor of Social Science and Coordinator of the Urban Studies Program at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface PART I: CITY, SUBURB AND POST-SUBURB Introduction: International Perspectives on Suburbanisation: A Post-suburban World?; N. A. Phelps & F. Wu Suburbia and Post-suburbia: A Brief History; J. C. Teaford The Restless Landscape of Metroburbia Elisabeth Chaves; P. Knox & D. Bieri Post-suburbia and City-region Politics; R. Keil & D. Young PART II: POST-SUBURBIA IN THE AMERICAS Post-suburban Regionalism: From Local Politics of Exclusion to Regional Politics of Economic Development; A. E. Jonas Privatisation of the Fringes - A Latin American Version of Post-suburbia: The Case of Santiago de Chile Dirk Heinrichs; M. Lukas & H. Nuissl From Country Club to Edge city? Gated Residential Communities and the Transformation of Pilar, Argentina; S. Roitman & N. A. Phelps PART III: POST-SUBURBIA AND EUROPE'S COMPACT CITIES Post-suburbia in Continental Europe; M. Bontje and J. Burdack Post-suburbia in the Context of Urban Containment: The Case of the South East of England; A. Cochrane Khimki in Moscow City-region: From 'closed city' to 'edge city'?; O. Golubchikov, N. A. Phelps & A. Makhrova PART IV: VARIETIES OF POST-SUBURBIA IN EAST ASIA Post suburban Elements in an Asian Extended Metropolitan Region: Jabodetabek (Jakarta metropolitan area); T. Firman Post-suburban Tokyo? Urbanization, Suburbanization, Reurbanization; A. Sorensen New Towns for Suburbs? Developmental State Politics and New Town Development in Seoul Metropolitan Region; Y-SLee & H. Shin Conclusion: Post Suburban Worlds?; F. Wu & N. A. Phelps Notes References Index

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NPB9780230276390
9780230276390
0230276393
International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World? by N. Phelps
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-09-13
289
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