Suburban Governance

A Global View

by Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil

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Pub Date Jan 13 2015 | Archive Date Jan 12 2015

University of Toronto Press | Global Suburbanisms Series

Nonfiction (Adult)

Description

North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges.

In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled 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. With contributors from ten countries on five continents, this collection covers the full breadth of contemporary developments in suburban governance. Examining the classic North American model of suburbia, contemporary alternatives in Europe and Latin America, and the emerging suburbanisms of Africa and Asia, Suburban Governance offers a strong analytical introduction to a vital topic in contemporary urban studies.

(Global Suburbanisms)

PIERRE HAMEL is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Montréal.

ROGER KEIL is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University and the principal investigator of the Global Suburbanisms research project.

Advance Praise

“Suburban Governance is a landmark volume for the consolidation of global urban studies, making an important contribution to a new generation of scholarship marking out the opportunities for inventive theorization and the renewal of the conceptual landscape of the field. It sets a new standard for the growing commitment to post-colonialize urban studies.”

Jennifer Robinson, Department of Geography, University College London

“Suburban Governance is an important contribution to intellectual discussions about suburbanization. This collection is very much up there with the best work on critical urban theory.”

Andrew E.G. Jonas, Department of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, University of Hull

“This collection provides compelling insight into the global nature of suburban development and the various ways in which the dynamics of (sub)urban development play out in different political and economic contexts.”

Andrew Wood, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky

Contributors

Robin Bloch

Elena Chou

Tom Clery

Michael Ekers

Shubhra Gururani

Pierre Hamel

Dirk Heinrichs

Sonia Hirt

Louise C. Johnson

Sigrun Kabisch

Roger Keil

Burak Kose

Atanas Kovachev

Terry McGee

Jan Nijman

Henning Nuissl

Jamie Peck

Nicholas A. Phelps

Dieter Rink

Ananya Roy

Jie Shen

Thomas Sieverts

Amparo Tarazona Vento

Kieran Williams

Fulong Wu

Robert Young

“Suburban Governance is a landmark volume for the consolidation of global urban studies, making an important contribution to a new generation of scholarship marking out the opportunities for...

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