Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 di
Trade Review"Keil provides a crucial theoretical underpinning to show how a plurality of suburbanization processes are multifariously linked to urban expansion yet constitute their own force and way of existing. This is the first book I know to really engage this heterogeneity with all of its problems, weird splendor, and ambivalent potentiality."
AbdouMaliq Simone, Goldsmiths, University of London "
Suburban Planet is a major contribution to the theoretical and policy debates that are emerging in the increasingly urbanized twenty-first century. It is in the spatially 'exploding' urban places that the urban drama of the 21st century will be played out against a background of economic volatility, social tension and environmental risk."
Terry McGee, University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Suburbanization Explained
- 3 Suburban Theory
- 4 Suburban Studies
- 5 From Lakewood to Ferguson
- 6 Beyond the Picket Fence: Global Suburbia
- 7 Suburban Infrastructures
- 8 The Urban Political Ecology of Suburbanization
- 9 The Political Suburb
- Notes
- References
