Introduction: Governance In A Suburban World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: Governance In A Suburban World 1
7. Section 1.Suburban Governance
8. 1. Governing Suburbia: Modalities And Mechanisms Of Suburban Governance 19
9. 2. A Note On Governance: More Intervening Variables, Please 49
10. Section 2. Suburban Governance In The Classical Anglo-Saxon Cases
11. 3. The United States: Suburban Imaginaries And Metropolitan Realities 57
12. 4. Modalities Of Suburban Governance In Canada 80
13. 5. Governing Suburban Australia 110
14. 6. Chicago-School Suburbanism 130
15. Section 3. The Existing Alternatives
16. 7. Suburban Governance In Western Europe 155
17. 8. Suburbia In Three Acts: The East European Story 177
18. 9. Governing Shrinkage Of Large Housing Estates At The Fringe 198
19. 10. Suburbanization In Latin America: Towards New Authoritarian Modes Of Governance At The Urban Margin 216
20. 11. On The Relations Of Culture And Suburbia: How To Give Meaning To The Suburban Landscape? 239
21. Section 4.The Emerging Models
22. 12. Africa’S New Suburbs 253
23. 13. Shifting Terrain: Questions Of Governance In India’S Cities And Their Peripheries 278
24. 14. Suburban Development And Governance In China 303
25. 15. Deconstructing The Decentralized Urban Spaces Of The Mega-Urban Regions In The Global South 325
26. 16. Governing The Postcolonial Suburbs 337
27. Conclusion Suburban Governance: Convergent And Divergent Dynamics 349
28. Author Biographies 359
29. Index 371