{"product_id":"suburban-planet-9780745683119","title":"Suburban Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by Henri Lefebvre''s demand not to give up urban theory when the city in its classical form di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbdouMaliq Simone, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSuburban Planet\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerry McGee, University of British Columbia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Suburbanization Explained\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Suburban Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Suburban Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 From Lakewood to Ferguson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Beyond the Picket Fence: Global Suburbia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Suburban Infrastructures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 The Urban Political Ecology of Suburbanization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 The Political Suburb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404427010391,"sku":"9780745683119","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745683119.jpg?v=1730486426","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suburban-planet-9780745683119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}