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"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The purp...
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Global suburbanisms
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| Summary: |
"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of suburban development, focusing on issues associated with the scale and pace of rapid urbanization around the world. Editors Richard Harris and Ute Lehrer and a diverse group of contributors draw on a variety of sources, including official data, planning documents, newspapers, interviews, photographs, and field observations to explore the pattern, process, and planning of suburban land development. Featuring case studies from major world regions, including China, India, Latin America, South Africa, as well as France, Austria, the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada, the volume identifies and discusses the peculiarly transitional character of suburban land. In addition to place and time, The Suburban Land Question addresses the many elements that distinguish land development in urban fringe areas, including economy, social infrastructure, and legality."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Item Description: | Papers largely from a workshop held at the Centre d'études politiques de l'Europe latine, CNRS-University of Montpellier I, in the fall of 2012. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442626959 144262695X 9781442649590 1442649593 |
| Index Number: | HT351 |
| CLC: |
C912.8-532 TU984.17-532 |
| Call Number: | TU984.17-532/S941/2012 |
| Contents: |
Prologue: a photo essay on the spatial morphology of suburban land development -- The suburban land question: introduction / Alternative peripheries: socialist mass housing compared with modern suburbia / Differentiated landscapes of suburban property: path dependence and the political logics of landownership rules / Planetary urbanization in Zurich: a territorial approach for urban analysis / The morphology of dispersed suburbanism: the land-use patterns of the dominant North American urban form / The paradox of informality and formality: China's suburban land development and planning / Comparing recent suburban developments in Austria and the Netherlands / Factors affecting development patterns in the suburbs of small to mid-sized Canadian cities / Latin America: the suburb is the city / Urban governance, land use, and housing affordability: a transatlantic comparison / An effective public partnership for suburban land development: Fleurhof, Johannesburg / Production of land for real estate markets in the suburban area of Chennai Metropolis: the case of Sriberumbudur-Oragadam region / Conclusion: What are the suburban land questions? / |