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Suburban governance : a global view / edited by Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global suburbanismsPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442663565
  • 1442663561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suburban governanceDDC classification:
  • 307.74 23
LOC classification:
  • HT351 .S83 2015eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll13
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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