Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures: Contemporary International Cases - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487504950 ISBN 13 : 9781487504953

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2019

Synopsis

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.

Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: low-density infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487504950
• ISBN 13: 9781487504953
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Éditeur: Filion Pierre, Pulver Nina M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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