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Title

Critical perspectives on suburban infrastructures : contemporary international cases / edited by Pierre Filion and Nina M. Pulver.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Filion, Pierre, 1952-
• Pulver, Nina M., 1978-

Description

x, 407 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--

Series Statement

Global suburbanisms

Uniform Title

Global suburbanisms.

Subject

• Suburbs > Developed countries > Case studies
• Suburbs > Developing countries > Case studies
• Infrastructure (Economics) > Developed countries > Case studies
• Infrastructure (Economics) > Developing countries > Case studies
• Infrastructure (Economics)
• Suburbs
• Developed countries
• Developing countries

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section 1: Situating suburban infrastructures -- Section 2: Suburban infrastructures in crisis -- Section 3: Reshaping suburban infrastructures.

Call Number

JFE 19-7390

ISBN

• 1487523610
• 9781487523619
• 9781487504953
• 1487504950

OCLC

1065730333

Title

Critical perspectives on suburban infrastructures : contemporary international cases / edited by Pierre Filion and Nina M. Pulver.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Global suburbanisms

Global suburbanisms.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Filion, Pierre, 1952- editor.

Pulver, Nina M., 1978- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7390