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This is the first comprehensive look at the role of North American suburbs in the last half century, departing from traditional and outdated notions of American suburbia.
List of contents
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Preface 1. Introduction: Elusive Suburbia
Jan Nijman
Part 1: Questioning North American Suburbia2. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa
Richard Harris
3. Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries
Liette Gilbert
4. Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami
Jan Nijman and Tom Clery
5. Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region
Fang Wei and Paul Knox
Part 2: Changing Political Economies of Suburbanization6. The Strange Case of the Bay Area
Richard Walker and Alex Schafran
7. Vancouverism as Suburbanism
Elliot Siemiatycki, Jamie Peck, and Elvin Wyly
8. Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis?
Claire Poitras and Pierre Hamel
9. New York’s Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region
James Defilippis and Christopher Niedt
Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and the Remaking of Suburbia10. Diverging Racial Geographies in Phoenix’s Postwar and Post-Civil Rights Suburbs
Deirdre Pfeiffer
11. Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the "Black Mecca"
Katherine Hankins and Steve Holloway
12. Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan
Rob Shields, Dianne Gillespie, and Kieran Moran
13. Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago
David Wilson
Part 4: Contested Suburbs
14. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles
Roger Keil and Derek Brunelle
15. Reaching Suburbia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa
Caroline Andrew and Angela Franovic
16. Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Canadian Cities
Jill L. Grant
17. Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces
Jan Nijman
Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Jan Nijman
Summary
This is the first comprehensive look at the role of North American suburbs in the last half century, departing from traditional and outdated notions of American suburbia.
