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Book SynopsisIn What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface, and acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms 2. The Naming Process - Christian Topalov 3. 'Suburb' is not a rude word in Australia'. A lexical history of Australian suburbs - Graeme Davison 4. Doubts about 'suburbs' in Canada - Amy Shanks, V. Coates and R. Harris 5. Defining peripheral places in Quebec. A review of key planning reports and media (1960-2012) - Claire Poitras 6. Bombay's Urban Edge: Villages, Suburbs, Slums, and the expanding city - N. Rao 7. Kampungs, Buitenwijken and Kota Mandiri. Naming the urban fringe on Java, Indonesia - Freek Colombijn and Abidin Kusno 8. From favela to communidade, and beyond. The taming of Rio de Janeiro - Rafael S. Goncalves and Francesca Pilo' 9. Naming Rome's Edge. Cultural and Political Representations of the Borgata - Francesco Bartolini 10. Naming Madrid's working-class periphery, 1860-1970. The construction of urban illegitimacy - Charlotte Vorms 11. To name or not to name. Contradictions in naming processes of one Bucharest district - Ioana Florea 12. Some reflections on comparing (post-)suburbs in U.S. and France - R. Le Goix 13. Periurbain, from woes to words. Political and social uses of a new administrative category - Anne Lambert 14. The new neighbourhoods. The discursive (and other) transformation of South Sofia's modest beginnings - Sonia Hirt 15. Lost in Translation: Names, Meanings, and Development Strategies of Beijing's Periphery - Xuefei Ren 16. Concluding suggestions - Richard Harris Contributors
