This is the first comprehensive look at the role of North American suburbs in the last half century, departing from traditional and outdated notions of American suburbia.
Reading modern architecture and urbanism in socialist and capitalist cities, this work challenges the twentieth-century divide between East and West in favour of a shared and contested history that plays out on the peripheries of the world's cities.
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.
In What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.
The purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world.
The book takes a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures. Cases highlight similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.
Global suburbanization occurs through massive settlements that range from single-family homes to large-scale tower blocks. Leading international experts discuss and explain massive suburbanization's shared themes and differences across multiple nations and regions.
Politics of the Periphery discusses empirical studies of post-metropolitan regions around the world.
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