The Suburban Land Question

Author : Richard Harris,Ute Lehrer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442620636

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The Suburban Land Question by Richard Harris,Ute Lehrer Pdf

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.

Author : Cheryl Cowdy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228012283

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Canadian Suburban by Cheryl Cowdy Pdf

Though a large proportion of Canadians live in suburban communities, the Canadian cultural imaginary is filled with other landscapes. The wilderness, the prairie, cityscapes, and small towns are the settings by which we define our nation, rather than the strip mall, the single-family home, and the developing subdivision, which for many are ubiquitous features of everyday life. Canadian Suburban considers the cultures of suburbia as they are articulated in English Canadian fiction published from the 1960s to the present. Cheryl Cowdy begins her excursion through novels set between 1945 and 1970, the heyday of modern suburban development, with works by canonical authors such as Margaret Laurence, Richard B. Wright, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Gowdy. Her investigation then turns to the meaning of the suburbs within fiction set after the 1970s, when a more corporate model of suburbanization prevailed, and ends with an investigation of how writers from immigrant and racialized communities are radically transforming the suburban imaginary. Cowdy argues there is no one authentic suburban imaginary but multiple, at times contradictory, representations that disrupt prevalent assumptions about suburban homogeneity. Canadian Suburban provides a foundation for understanding the literary history of suburbia and a refreshing reassessment of the role of space and place in Canadian culture and identity.

Author : Marion Clawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134002054

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Suburban Land Conversion in the United States by Marion Clawson Pdf

This comprehensive study of land use on the suburban fringe analyzes the complex relationships that underlie land conversion in the United States. It contains a detailed examination of the northwestern urban complex; some nationwide projections for the future; and a list of measures that, singularly or together, may change the nature and results of the suburban land conversion process. Originally published in 1971

Author : Bernadette Hanlon,Thomas J. Vicino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351970112

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The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs by Bernadette Hanlon,Thomas J. Vicino Pdf

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This volume brings together the leading scholars of the suburbs researching in different parts of the world to better understand how and why suburbs and their communities grow, decline, and regenerate. The volume sets out four goals: 1) to provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of the historical and current state of understanding about the development of suburbs in the world; 2) to provide a forum for a comprehensive examination into the conceptual, theoretical, spatial, and empirical discontents of suburbanization; 3) to engage in a scholarly conversation about the transformation of suburbs that is interdisciplinary in nature and bridges the divide between the Global North and the Global South; and 4) to reflect on the implications of the socioeconomic, cultural, and political transformations of the suburbs for policymakers and planners. The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs is composed of original, scholarly contributions from the leading scholars of the study of how and why suburbs grow, decline, and transform. Special attention is paid to the global nature of suburbanization and its regional variations, with a focus on comparative analysis of suburbs through regions across the world in the Global North and the Global South. Articulated in a common voice, the volume is integrated by the very nature of the concept of a suburb as the unit of analysis, offering multidisciplinary perspectives from the fields of economics, geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Author : Pierre Hamel,Roger Keil
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442614000

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Suburban Governance by Pierre Hamel,Roger Keil Pdf

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.

Author : K. Murat Guney,Roger Keil,Murat Ucoglu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487531874

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Massive Suburbanization by K. Murat Guney,Roger Keil,Murat Ucoglu Pdf

Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of space. Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Groβwohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb."

Author : Steven Logan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781487525439

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In the Suburbs of History by Steven Logan Pdf

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.

Author : South Australia. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : South Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015391803

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Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia by South Australia. Parliament Pdf

Author : Pierre Filion,Nina M. Pulver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487523619

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Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures by Pierre Filion,Nina M. Pulver Pdf

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South. Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: low-density infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.

Author : Roger Keil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745683157

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Suburban Planet by Roger Keil Pdf

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about the process that creates the global urban periphery – suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we encounter there. Richly detailed with examples from around the world, the book argues that suburbanization is a global process and part of the extended urbanization of the planet. This includes the gated communities of elites, the squatter settlements of the poor, and many built forms and ways of life in-between. The reality of life in the urban century is suburban: most of the earth's future 10 billion inhabitants will not live in conventional cities but in suburban constellations of one kind or another. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's demand not to give up urban theory when the city in its classical form disappears, this book is a challenge to urban thought more generally as it invites the reader to reconsider the city from the outside in.

Author : Ilja Van Damme,Ruth McManus,Michiel Dehaene
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781487537951

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Creativity from Suburban Nowheres by Ilja Van Damme,Ruth McManus,Michiel Dehaene Pdf

Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of "ordinary," "mundane," and "everyday" practices. Far from being geographies of "nowhere" – dull, materialistic, and monotone – suburbs are unpacked as being heterogeneous and historically layered places of living, work, and creation. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres displaces mainstream understandings of creativity and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs. Contributors explore the particular forms of creativity that suburbs elicit both in the process of their making, materialization, and community construction, and in the myriad ways in which suburbs are inhabited and experienced. They highlight accounts of suburbs as places that give people the space and latitude to shape individual and collective identities through creative practices at odds with mainstream culture, and often remote from the classic agglomeration "assets" associated with inner cities. Anchored in historical and geographical research, this volume highlights how and in what forms creativity should be understood in the suburbs, why and when creativity can be found, and how the notion of suburban creativity overthrows ingrained and dominant normative viewpoints. Rather than seeing creativity arise despite its suburban location, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres illuminates the emancipatory potential of suburbs for creativity.

Author : Carl H. Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424523

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Earthopolis by Carl H. Nightingale Pdf

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities.

Author : Jan Nijman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487512477

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The Life of North American Suburbs by Jan Nijman Pdf

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from New York to Vancouver, Atlanta to Chicago, Montreal to Phoenix, The Life of North American Suburbs traces the insightful connection between the evolution of suburbs and the cultural dynamics of modern society. Suburbs are uniquely significant spaces: their creation and evolution reflect the shifting demographics, race relations, modes of production, cultural fabric, and class structures of society at large. The case studies investigate the place of suburbs within their wider metropolitan constellations: the crucial role they play in the cultural, economic, political, and spatial organization of the city. Together, the chapters paint a compelling portrait of North American cities and their dynamic suburban landscapes.

Author : Roger Keil,Fulong Wu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781487531072

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After Suburbia by Roger Keil,Fulong Wu Pdf

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 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.

Author : John Sewell
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550284362

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Houses and Homes by John Sewell Pdf

In the first comprehensive book on the topic since the 1970s, former Toronto mayor John Sewell considers housing issues in Canada. Writing in a style that is accessible and direct, Sewell considers public, private, and social housing. He looks at affordability and need, discusses definitions of good housing and good neighbourhoods, and examines the various approaches that governments have taken since World War II to increase the stock of reasonably priced housing. He shows why these approaches have consumed large amounts of public dollars yet have often failed. Indeed, homelessness is a larger problem in Canadian cities than ever before. In a time of shrinking public expenditures, he proposes the kinds of solutions necessary to ensure that all Canadians are well housed.. As chair of the Metro Toronto Housing Authority in the eighties and, more recently, as chair of the Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario, Sewell has played a unique role in increasing public awareness of housing issues. His thought-provoking analysis will be of interest to all who believe that Canadians deserve affordable housing.