Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction. Why Transnationalize Urban History? 1
5. PART I. GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE
6. Chapter 1. Silicon Dreams: States, Markets, and the Transnational High-Tech Suburb 17
7. Chapter 2. Homeownership and Social Welfare in the Americas: Ciudad Kennedy as a Midcentury Crossroads 47
8. Chapter 3. Building the Alliance for Progress: Local and Transnational Encounters in a Low-Income Housing Program in Rio de Janeiro, 1962–67 71
9. Chapter 4. Slum Clearance as a Transnational Process in Globalizing Manila 98
10. Chapter 5. Crossing Boundaries: The Global Exchange of Planning Ideas 114
11. PART II. PLACE, CULTURE, AND POWER
12. Chapter 6. Condos in the Mall: Suburban Transnational Typological Transformations in Markham, Ontario 133
13. Chapter 7. Requiem for a Barrio: Race, Space, and Gentrification in Southern California 166
14. Chapter 8. Transnational Performances in Chicago’s Independence Day Parade 191
15. Chapter 9. Transnational Urban Meanings: The Passage of “Suburb” to India and Its Rough Reception 223
16. Chapter 10. Suburbanization and Urban Practice in India 241
17. Chapter 11. Will the Transnational City Be Digitized? The Dialectics of Diversified Spatial Media and Expanded Spatial Scopes 252
18. Notes 265
19. List of Contributors 321
20. Index 325
21. Acknowledgments 339