International perspectives on suburbanization
Subtitle: a post-suburban world?
By: edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Fulong Wu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780230276390
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; Regional planning; Cities and towns; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; Urban Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface; title: PART I: CITY, SUBURB AND POST-SUBURB; title: Introduction: International Perspectives on Suburbanisation: A Post-suburban World?; N. A. Phelps & F. Wu; title: Suburbia and Post-suburbia: A Brief History; J. C. Teaford; title: The Restless Landscape of Metroburbia Elisabeth Chaves; P. Knox & D. Bieri; title: Post-suburbia and City-region Politics; R. Keil & D. Young; title: PART II: POST-SUBURBIA IN THE AMERICAS; title: Post-suburban Regionalism: From Local Politics of Exclusion to Regional Politics of Economic Development; A. E. Jonas; title: Privatisation of the Fringes - A Latin American Version of Post-suburbia: The Case of Santiago de Chile Dirk Heinrichs; M. Lukas & H. Nuissl; title: From Country Club to Edge city? Gated Residential Communities and the Transformation of Pilar, Argentina; S. Roitman & N. A. Phelps; title: PART III: POST-SUBURBIA AND EUROPE'S COMPACT CITIES; title: Post-suburbia in Continental Europe; M. Bontje and J. Burdack; title: Post-suburbia in the Context of Urban Containment: The Case of the South East of England; A. Cochrane; title: Khimki in Moscow City-region: From 'closed city' to 'edge city'?; O. Golubchikov, N. A. Phelps & A. Makhrova; title: PART IV: VARIETIES OF POST-SUBURBIA IN EAST ASIA; title: Post suburban Elements in an Asian Extended Metropolitan Region: Jabodetabek (Jakarta metropolitan area); T. Firman; title: Post-suburban Tokyo? Urbanization, Suburbanization, Reurbanization; A. Sorensen; title: New Towns for Suburbs? Developmental State Politics and New Town Development in Seoul Metropolitan Region; Y-SLee & H. Shin; title: Conclusion: Post Suburban Worlds?; F. Wu& N. A. Phelps; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.