ISBN:
9781487531867
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 380 Seiten)
Serie:
Global suburbanisms
Paralleltitel:
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DDC:
303.482091732
Schlagwort(e):
Urbanization-Case studies.
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Housing development
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
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.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Re-thinking the Massive Periphery -- Introduction: Massive Suburbanization - Political Economy, Ethnography, Governance -- 1: Peripheries against Peripheries? Against Spatial Reification -- 2: Public Housing, Heroin Addiction, and America's Industrial Suburbs: A Planetary Urbanist Perspective -- Part Two: Legacies -- 3: Estates under Pressure: Financialization, Shrinkage, and State Restructuring in East Germany -- 4: Learning from the Socialist Suburb -- 5: Decline and Renewal in Toronto's High-Rise Suburbs: The Tragedy of Progressive Neoliberalism -- 6: Redeveloping Montpellier's Suburban High-Rises: National Policy Meets Local Activism in the Debate over Public Space -- 7: (De)Constructing Housing Estates: How Much More than a Housing Question? -- Part Three: Spotlight on Istanbul -- 8: From Kayabaşı to Kayaşehir - A City Grows "Out in the Sticks" -- 9: Building Northern Istanbul: Mega-Projects, Speculation, and New Suburbs -- 10: Massive Housing and Nature's Limits? The Urban Political Ecology of Istanbul's Periphery -- Part Four: The Suburban Century -- 11: Morocco's "Pirate Suburbs" from Punishment to Controlled Integration: Neoliberalizing the Regulation of Casablanca's "Chechnya" -- 12: State-Led Housing Provision Twenty-Five Years On: Change, Evolution, and Agency on Johannesburg's Edge -- 13: From Informal Settlements to Harmonious Communities: Professional Squatters and the Many Actors of Urbanization in Metro Manila -- 14: Suburbanisms of Ethnocracy: Building New Peripheries in Israel/Palestine -- 15: The Making of Cairo's Vast Planned Periphery: Particularities and Parallels Revealed through an Examination of Four Suburban Cultural Assemblages -- 16: Massive Suburbanization, Heterogeneous Suburbs in China.
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