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Book SynopsisThe book takes a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures. Cases highlight similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Scope and Scales of Suburban Infrastructure Section 1: Situating Suburban Infrastructures 2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure? 3. Rescaling the Suburban: New Directions in the Relationship Between Governance and Infrastructure 4. Financial Infrastructures of Suburbanism: From Suburbanization to Value Extraction Section 2: Suburban Infrastuctures in Crisis 5. Phases of Neoliberal Infrastructure: Dynamic Capitalist and Institutional Learning in the Neoliberal Experiment Test Zones of Post-Soviet Europe 6. "Designed to Fail": Technopolitics of Disavowal in an Urbanizing Frontier of India 7. Governance by Crises and Failing Infrastructure in Michigan: The 21st Century Republican Strategy 8. Infrastructure Interludes: Socio-technical Disposition and Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems in the Stockholm Archipelago 9. Suburban Constellations of Water Supply and Sanitation in Hanoi iii Section 3: Reshaping Suburban Infrastructures 10. The "In-Between Territories" of Suburban Infrastructure Politics 11. Recentralization and Green Infrastructures: Seeking Compatibility between Alternatives to North American Suburban Development 12. ‘Green Infrastructure’: The Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt as Urban Boundary? 13. Building on Quick Sand: Infrastructural Megaprojects in China 14. Retrofitting Obsolete Suburbs – Networks, Fixes and Divisions 15. Sustainability as an Urban Way of Living: The Uneven Outcomes of "Sustainable Mobility Infrastructure" Planning Conclusion: Global Suburban Infrastructure Trajectories
