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Massive Suburbanization

(Re)Building the Global Periphery

edited by K. Murat Guney, Roger Keil & Murat Ucoglu

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2019
Category
Urban, City Planning & Urban Development, Geography
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487505264
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $98.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487523770
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $47.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487531874
    Publish Date
    May 2019
    List Price
    $47.95

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Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of space.

 

Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Groβwohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb."

About the authors

K. Murat Güney is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Acıbadem University in İstanbul.

K. Murat Guney's profile page

Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. A former director of York’s City Institute, he researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, and regional governance. He is the editor of Suburban Constellations (2013) and co-editor (with Pierre Hamel) of Suburban Governance: A Global View (2015).

Roger Keil's profile page

Murat Üçoğlu is a PhD candidate and course director in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Murat Ucoglu's profile page