Suburban Planet by Keil, Roger -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Table of Contents Urban Futures Series Title page Copyright page Dedication Acknowledgements 1: Introduction

What kind of world do we live in? A world of suburbs! Note

2: Suburbanization Explained

Explaining suburbanization critically Structural crisis and the enforcement of suburbanization as the general form of urbanization Notes

3: Suburban Theory

Forward into critical suburban theory Rebuilding sub/urban theory Urban theory after the suburban explosion The incomparable suburb Entering the sub/urban century of theory The suburban prospect: observations on global suburbanization Conclusion: the need for a reorientation

4: Suburban Studies

A call for suburban studies? Suburban studies: under the radar Suburban studies revisited Quo vadis, suburban literature?

5: From Lakewood to Ferguson

The global suburb: the suburban global city The North American suburb invented Foreshadowing the global suburb in the suburbanized city suburbia recast The suburbs inverted Making suburbs diverse The Toronto cosmopolis: from Scarberia to Browntown The road to Ferguson Notes

6: Beyond the Picket Fence: Global Suburbia

The suburban prospect: observations on global suburbanization The regions of suburbanization Globalized sub/urbanization Note

7: Suburban Infrastructures

Retrofitting suburban infrastructure for/in post-suburbia Conclusion Notes

8: The Urban Political Ecology of Suburbanization

Towers in the park, bungalows in the garden: peripheral densities, metropolitan scales Boundaries of suburban political ecologies The urban political ecology of greenbelts Thinking about post-suburbanization Grey transitions Global suburbanism in the capitalocene Sub/urban political ecology Conclusion Notes

9: The Political Suburb

Suburban governance Framing the mechanisms of suburban governance Manifesto of the suburban revolution The urge to retrofit The changing scale of suburban planning and politics Changing political ecologies of suburbanization

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