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Massive suburbanization : (re)building the global periphery
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"Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new periph...
"Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Großwohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb.""--
"Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of space."--
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- edited by K. Murat Güney, Roger Keil, and Murat Üçoğlu
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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- Physical Details
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- xii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781487505264, 9781487523770, 1487531869, 9781487531867, 1487505264, 1487523777
- OCLC
- on1066041718, on1099434469
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part one: re-thining the massive periphery -- Introduction: massive suburbanization - political economy, ethnography, governance -- Peripheries against peripheries? Against spatial reification -- Public housing, heroin addictio, and America's industrial suburbs: a planetary urbanist perspective -- Part two: legacies -- Estates under pressure: financialization, shrinkage, and state restructuring in East Germany -- Learning from the socialist suburb -- Decline and renewal in Toronto's high-rise suburbs: the tragedy of progressive neoliberalism -- Redeveloping Montpellier's suburban high-rises: national policy meets local activism in the debate over public space -- (De)Constructing housing estates: how much more than a housing question? -- Part three: spotlight on Istanbul -- From Kayabasi to Kayasehir - a city grows "out in the sticks" -- Building northern Instanbul: mega-projects, speculation, and new suburbs -- Massive housing and nature's limits? The urban political ecology of Istanbul's periphery -- Part four: the suburban century -- Morocco's "pirate suburbs" from punishment to controlled integration: neoliberalizing the regulation of Casablanca's "Chechnya" -- State-led housing provision twenty-five years on: change, evolution, and agency on Johannesburg's edge -- From informal settlements to harmonious communities: professional squatters and the many actors of urbanization in metro Manila -- Suburbanisms of ethnocracy: building new peripheries in Israel/Palestine -- The making of Cairo's vast planned periphery: particularities and parallels revealed through an examination of four suburban cultural assemblages -- Massive suburbanization, heterogeneous suburbs in China -- Conclusions: massive suburbia: from the legacy of the habitat to the financialization of housing in the planetary periphery