UID:
edocfu_9960800135702883
Format:
1 online resource (278 pages) :
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illustration, maps.
ISBN:
1-4426-1648-2
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1-4426-1647-4
Series Statement:
Global Suburbanisms
Content:
"The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn't applicable to the wider world. Old Europe, New Suburbanization? takes us on a journey of rediscovery into some of Europe's oldest metropolises. The volume's contributors reveal the great variety of patterns and processes of urbanization that make Europe a fruitful ground for furthering the diversity of global suburbanisms. The effects of urban history found in such cities as Athens, London, Madrid, Montpellier, and Sofia, varies greatly due to the sheer variety of economic, industrial, land, and expansionist policies at play on the continent. This collection highlights the varied historical and geographical manifestations that have shaped urban areas and provides evidence for new processes of suburbanization."--
Note:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Author Biographies; 1 Introduction: Old Europe, New Suburbanization?; 2 Madrid: The Making of a Global City Region and the Role of the Suburbs; 3 The Failure of Planning in a Fragmented Property Market: Poland's Model of Suburbanization; 4 O Sofia, Where Art Thou? Suburbs as Stories of Time and Space; 5 Ideology, Planning, and Meaning in Suburbia: Investigating the Case of Row House Areas; 6 The Changing Face of Athens: Development Pressures in the Maroussi and Kifissia Suburbs.
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7 Old Wine in New Bottles: Land, Population Growth, and Montpellier's Suburban Face-off8 "In-betweens" in Time and Space: The Governance of Suburbanisms in the Ruhr; 9 City of Villages? Stasis and Change in London's Suburbs; 10 Between Farming Villages and Hedge-Fund Centres: The Politics of Urbanization in the Border Zone of the Metropolitan Region of Zurich; 11 Conclusion: Old Europe, New Research Themes; Author Index; Subject Index.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4826-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-2601-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442616479
