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Old Europe, new suburbanization? : governance, land, and infrastructure in European suburbanization /

"The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experienc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Phelps, N. A. (Nicholas A.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:Global suburbanisms.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Author Biographies; 1 Introduction: Old Europe, New Suburbanization?; 2 Madrid: The Making of a Global City Region and the Role of the Suburbs; 3 The Failure of Planning in a Fragmented Property Market: Poland's Model of Suburbanization; 4 O Sofia, Where Art Thou? Suburbs as Stories of Time and Space; 5 Ideology, Planning, and Meaning in Suburbia: Investigating the Case of Row House Areas; 6 The Changing Face of Athens: Development Pressures in the Maroussi and Kifissia Suburbs.
  • 7 Old Wine in New Bottles: Land, Population Growth, and Montpellier's Suburban Face-off8 "In-betweens" in Time and Space: The Governance of Suburbanisms in the Ruhr; 9 City of Villages? Stasis and Change in London's Suburbs; 10 Between Farming Villages and Hedge-Fund Centres: The Politics of Urbanization in the Border Zone of the Metropolitan Region of Zurich; 11 Conclusion: Old Europe, New Research Themes; Author Index; Subject Index.