Full Description
The majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments.
Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism.
This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continuing importance of the suburbs and the suburban dream, which lives on albeit under increasing challenges, such as the global financial crisis, structural racism, and the Covid-19 pandemic, which have given rise to various suburban nightmares.
Contents
1. Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? Part I: Representations of Suburbia 2. Fixing Post-suburbia: Recalibrating the Way we Think, Speak, and Act Upon Toronto's Periphery 3. Master Planned and Active Lifestyles Developments in Australia: Gerotopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare? 4. Suburban Shopping Malls in Melbourne, Australia: Changing Roles and Impacts as New Town Centres for Diverse Communities 5. Liminal Space, Film Noir, and the Production of the (American) Suburb Part II: To Suburbia and Beyond 6. The Canadian Dream? Growth Trends in Canada's Suburban and Urban Neighbourhoods 7. Place Attachment in Non-Place Spaces? Community, Belonging and Mobilities in 'Post-Suburban' South East England 8. Does Galicia Experience Suburbanisation? (Sub)Urban Processes, Morphologies, and Planning on the Morrazo Peninsula 9. Suburban Housing Estates in Finland: Historic Development and Contemporary Challenges Part III: From Dreamscape to Nightmare? 10. Worlds Away in Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighbourhoods in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area 11. End of the (Sub)Urban Dream? The Foreclosure Crisis and Unmarried Partnered, Same-Sex Households in the United States 12. Between the Suburbs and the Banlieue 13.No Soft Landing for the Suburbs: Credit, Debt, and the Fracturing of the Suburban Dream in Ireland Conclusions 14. Covid-19 (Sub)Urbanisms: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
