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The Suburban Land Question : A Global Survey /

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The purpose of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harris, Richard (Editor ), Lehrer, Ute (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Global Suburbanisms
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Prologue: A Photo Essay on the Spatial Morphology of Suburban Land Development
  • 1. The Suburban Land Question: Introduction
  • 2. Alternative Peripheries: Socialist Mass Housing Compared with Modern Suburbia
  • 3. Differentiated Landscapes of Suburban Property: Path Dependence and the Political Logics of Landownership Rules
  • 4. Planetary Urbanization in Zurich: A Territorial Approach for Urban Analysis
  • 5. The Morphology of Dispersed Suburbanism: The Land-use Patterns of the Dominant North American Urban Form
  • 6. The Paradox of Informality and Formality: China's Suburban Land Development and Planning
  • 7. Comparing Recent Suburban Developments in Austria and the Netherlands
  • 8. Factors Affecting Development Patterns in the Suburbs of Small to Mid-Sized Canadian Cities
  • 9. Latin America: The Suburb Is the City
  • 10. Urban Governance, Land Use, and Housing Affordability: A Transatlantic Comparison
  • 11. An Effective Public Partnership for Suburban Land Development: Fleurhof, Johannesburg
  • 12. Production of Land for Real Estate Markets in the Suburban Area of Chennai Metropolis: The Case of Sriperumbudur-Oragadam Region
  • 13. Conclusion: What Are the Suburban Land Questions?
  • Contributors
  • Index