{"product_id":"whats-in-a-name-9781442626966","title":"Whats in a Name","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577997496663,"sku":"9781442626966","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442626966.jpg?v=1746097521","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whats-in-a-name-9781442626966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}