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The life of North American suburbs, imagined utopias and transitional spaces, edited by Jan Nijman

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The life of North American suburbs

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edited by Jan Nijman

Global suburbanisms

imagined utopias and transitional spaces

"This volume, by a group of recognized urban specialists, investigates the nature of suburbs and suburbanization in present-day North America. Common perception holds that the stereotypical notion of the suburb that emerged in the 1950s has been diverging from metropolitan realities. The early postwar 'sitcom suburb, ' singularly dominated by white, middle-class families in spacious and green environs with single-family homes, was short-lived and soon evolved into diversified forms in expanding and increasingly complex metropolitan configurations. We also know that many metropolitan areas have continued to expand outwards while amalgamating with cities in the region and the notion of the polycentric urban region has become widely accepted among scholars and policy makers. The concepts of edge cities and edgeless cities have been added to the lexicon. Still, the terms suburb, suburbia, suburbanism, and suburbanization have stuck, in the scholarly and professional jargon as well as in colloquial discourse - as terms they are increasingly difficult to define but the labels persist. The chapters in this book seek to clarify the meaning of suburbanization today in sixteen North American metropolitan areas, from relatively small cities to large conurbations and in different regions across the continent, including Mexico."--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: Elusive Suburbia /Jan Nijman -- Part 1: Questionging North American Suburbia. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa /Richard Harris -- Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries /Liette Gilbert -- Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami /Jan Nijman and Tom Clery -- Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region /Fang Wei and Paul Knox -- Part 2: Changing Political Economies of Suburbanization. The Strange Case of the Bay Area /Richard Walker and Alex Schafran -- Vancouverism as Suburbanism /Elliot Siemiatycki, Jamie Peck, and Elvin Wyly -- Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis? /Claire Poitras and Pierre Hamel -- New York's Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region /James Defilippis and Christopher Niedt -- Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and the Remaking of Suburbia. Diverging Racial Geographies in Pheonix's Postwar and Post-Civil Rights Suburbs /Dierdre Pfeiffer -- Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the "Black Mecca" /Katherine Hankins and Steven R. Holloway -- Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan /Rob Shields, Dianne Gillespie, and Kieran Moran -- Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago /David Wilson -- Part 4: Contested Suburbs. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles /Roger Keil and Derek Brunelle -- Reaching Subrubia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa /Caroline Andrew and Angela Franovic -- Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Cities /Jill L. Grant -- Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces /Jan Nijman