International Perspectives on Suburbanization A Post-Suburban World?

by Phelps, Nicholas A.; Wu, Fulong

• ISBN13: 9780230276390
• ISBN10: 0230276393
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Nicholas A. Phelps is Professor of Urban and Regional Development at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK. He is author of Multinationals and European Integration, co-author of Post-Suburban Europe and co-editor of The New Competition for Inward Investment. Fulong Wu is Professor of East Asian Planning and Development at the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK. He is editor of China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism, and co-author of Urban Development in Post-Reform China and Urban Poverty in China and co-editor of Marginalization in Urban China.

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