After Suburbia presents state-of-the-art suburban research to examine twenty-first-century cities from the point of view of their peripheries.
After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.
Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially the North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.
Edited by:
Roger Keil,
Fulong Wu
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781487504878
ISBN 10: 148750487X
Series: Global Suburbanisms
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 15 May 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Openings 1. Beyond Suburban Stereotypes: Urban Peripheries in the 21st Century Fulong Wu and Roger Keil 2. The Power of the Image: Integrating Research and Teaching via Experiential Education Ute Lehrer 3. The New Urban Peripheries, 1990-2014: Selected Findings from a Global Sample of Cities Solly Angel, with contributions by Yang Liu, Alex M. Blei, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Nicolás Galarza Sanchez, and Sara Arango-Franco 4. Regional Urbanisation Processes in Contemporary Italy: Beyond the City, from the Country of One Hundred Cities Alessandro Balducci, Valeria Fedeli, and Camilla Perrone 5. Extended Urbanization, Urban Utopias, and Other Economies Roberto Luís Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota 6. A Dose of Density: The Urban Counter-Revolution Richard Harris Land, Infrastructure, Governance 7. Cities in a World of Villages: Agrarian Urbanism and the Making of India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Shubhra Gururani 8. The ‘Publicness’ of Suburban Infrastructure Planning: Cases from Toronto and Melbourne Crystal Legacy 9. Suburban Infrastructures: Benevolent Public Domain and Instruments of Control and Power Pierre Filion 10. Intertwined Modalities of Suburban Governance in China Fulong Wu 11. Governing Cities in a Post-suburban Era: New Challenges for Planning? Pierre Hamel After Suburbia – The Path Ahead 12. An Atlas of Suburbanisms Markus Moos 13. Decolonizing Suburban Research Rob Shields 14. Seeing through the Darkness of Future Past: ‘After-Suburbia’ from a Historical Perspective Ilja Van Damme and Stijn Oosterlynk 15. The After-Lives of “Suburbs:” Methodological and Conceptual Innovations in Urban Studies Jennifer Robinson 16. Africa’s Suburban Constellations Robin Bloch, Alan Mabin, and Alison Todes 17. Outside the Outside: Alienation, Fidelity and New Sub-Urbanizations Matt Hern 18. (Sub)Urban Vibrations: The Suburbanisation of Sex Shops and Sex Toys in Australia Paul Maginn and Christine Steinmetz 19. Manhattan in Orange County: Lippo and the Shenzhen of Indonesia Abidin Kusno 20. Transnationalism and Southern Suburbanization: Accounting for Translocalities in Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe Arnisson Andre C. Ortega Conclusion 21. After Suburbia: Peripheral Notes on Urban Theory Roger Keil Contributors List and Legend of Images
Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London.
Reviews for After Suburbia: Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
"""After Suburbia is one of the most significant results of an unprecedented collective research effort on urban peripheries. Its major achievement is to place those peripheries at the core of urban theory. It will be unwise to consider doing research on suburbs without reading this collection."" - Eric Charmes, Research Director, ENTPE, University of Lyon ""Rather than strictly empirical objects, suburbs here are tools exploring the intricate fabric and plurality of urbanization, hinges that expose just how varied and extensive the non-city has become, as well as the intensity of conceptual and political contestations about the nature of urban life. Assembling such an illustrative team of researchers over many years to so comprehensively chart new terrain is itself an enormous accomplishment."" - AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield"
