Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures, Maps, and Tables vii
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Introduction: Elusive Suburbia 3
6. PART 1. Questioning North American Suburbia
7. 2. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa 23
8. 3. Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries 45
9. 4. Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami 65
10. 5. Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region 88
11. PART 2. Changing Political Economies of Suburbanization
12. 6. The Strange Case of the Bay Area 109
13. 7. Vancouverism as Suburbanism 129
14. 8. Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis? 149
15. 9. New York’s Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region 170
16. PART 3. Race, Ethnicity, and the Remaking of Suburbia
17. 10. Diverging Racial Geographies in Phoenix’s Postwar and Post–Civil Rights Suburbs 201
18. 11. Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the “Black Mecca” 223
19. 12. Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan 245
20. 13. Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago 269
21. PART 4. Contested Suburbs
22. 14. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles 289
23. 15. Reaching Suburbia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa 307
24. 16. Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Canadian Cities 328
25. Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces 349
26. Contributors 363
27. Index 369