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Suburbanization in global society /

Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the post-industrial city). A majority of the world population lives in urban areas, most in subur...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clapson, Mark, Hutchison, Ray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
Colección:Research in urban sociology ; 10.
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  • Introduction : suburbanization in global society / Mark Clapson, Ray Hutchison
  • Meaningful types in a world of suburbs / Richard Harris
  • Gwinnett goes global : the changing image of American suburbia / William Grady Holt
  • From mill towns to 'burbs of the burgh' : suburban strategies in the post-industrial metropolis / Allen Dieterich-Ward
  • Cities, suburbs and metropolitan areas : governing the regionalised city / Tassilo Herrschel
  • Urbanity beyond nostalgia : discovering public life at the edge of the city of Rome / Sandra Annunziata and Mara Cossu
  • Identity, marginalization, and Parisian banlieues / Jean Beaman
  • The life cycle of Johannesburg suburbs / Eric Petersen
  • Suburban reinvestment through 'knockdown rebuild' in Sydney / Simon Pinnegar, Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph
  • Changing urbanization patterns in the Brazilian metropolis / Suzana Pasternak, Lucia Maria Machado Bógus
  • Governing heterogeneity in the context of 'compulsory Closeness' : the 'pacification' of favelas / Leticia Veloso
  • The changing image of suburban areas in Latin America and the role of the local government / Sonia Roitman
  • The planned suburbanization of a city-state : Singapore's new towns / Rita Padawangi
  • Building for what and whom? New town development as planned suburbanization in China and India / Lan Wang, Ratoola Kundu, Xiangming Chen
  • Territorial expansion and state rescaling : a critique of suburbanization studies in China / Xuefei Ren.