Description
Book SynopsisThe urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive growth in urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of the twenty-first century's startling urban growth worldwide is happening in city peripheries.
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
