City Suburbs : Placing Suburbia in a Post-Suburban World
The majority of the world's population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City Suburbs considers contemporary Anglo-American suburbia, drawing on research in outer London it looks at life on the edge of a world city from the perspective of residents. Interpre...
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London :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- In conversation with Professor Sir Peter Hall
- 1 Introduction
- A suburban-urban world
- Post-suburbia
- Constructing suburbia
- Structure of the book
- Summary
- 2 The contemporary context
- Introduction
- Global suburbia
- Cities, regions
- Residential impacts of agglomeration and dispersal
- Summary
- 3 Suburban homeland
- Introduction
- Private project
- The suburban state
- Managing the city
- The city-suburban binary
- Summary
- 4 Variegated suburbia
- Introduction
- Suburban difference
- Suburban society and politics
- Summary
- 5 constructing suburban meaning
- Introduction
- The Bourdieuian approach
- Distinction
- Critiques
- Bourdieu in the 'burbs
- Summary
- 6 Semi-detached London?
- Introduction
- Moving across the urban canvas
- Suburban distinction?
- Participation
- Summary
- 7 Change in outer London
- Introduction
- Policy turns
- Ethnicity and change
- Place and porosity
- Summary
- 8 Placing the suburbs
- Introduction
- Place
- Placing in historical context
- Beyond Anglo-American histories
- History and meaning-making
- Placing meaning
- Place as relational
- Conclusions
- Appendix
- References
- Index