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Title Old Europe, new suburbanization? : governance, land, and infrastructure in European suburbanization / edited by Nicholas A. Phelps.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Global suburbanisms
Global suburbanisms.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn't applicable to the wider world. Old Europe, New Suburbanization? takes us on a journey of rediscovery into some of Europe's oldest metropolises. The volume's contributors reveal the great variety of patterns and processes of urbanization that make Europe a fruitful ground for furthering the diversity of global suburbanisms. The effects of urban history found in such cities as Athens, London, Madrid, Montpellier, and Sofia, varies greatly due to the sheer variety of economic, industrial, land, and expansionist policies at play on the continent. This collection highlights the varied historical and geographical manifestations that have shaped urban areas and provides evidence for new processes of suburbanization."-- Provided by publisher
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Author Biographies; 1 Introduction: Old Europe, New Suburbanization?; 2 Madrid: The Making of a Global City Region and the Role of the Suburbs; 3 The Failure of Planning in a Fragmented Property Market: Poland's Model of Suburbanization; 4 O Sofia, Where Art Thou? Suburbs as Stories of Time and Space; 5 Ideology, Planning, and Meaning in Suburbia: Investigating the Case of Row House Areas; 6 The Changing Face of Athens: Development Pressures in the Maroussi and Kifissia Suburbs.
7 Old Wine in New Bottles: Land, Population Growth, and Montpellier's Suburban Face-off8 "In-betweens" in Time and Space: The Governance of Suburbanisms in the Ruhr; 9 City of Villages? Stasis and Change in London's Suburbs; 10 Between Farming Villages and Hedge-Fund Centres: The Politics of Urbanization in the Border Zone of the Metropolitan Region of Zurich; 11 Conclusion: Old Europe, New Research Themes; Author Index; Subject Index.
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Subject Suburbs -- Europe -- Case studies.
Suburbs.
Europe.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Urbanization -- Europe -- Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Urbanization.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Phelps, N. A. (Nicholas A.), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Old Europe, new suburbanization? Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017] 9781442648265 (OCoLC)985966278
ISBN 9781442616479 (electronic book)
1442616474 (electronic book)
9781442616486 (e-book)
1442616482
9781442648265
1442648260
9781442626010
1442626011