Full Description
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, Grosswohnsiedlungen, 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."
Contents
AcknowledgmentsA. RE-THINKING THE MASSIVE PERIPHERYIntroduction: Massive Suburbanization - Political Economy, Ethnography, GovernanceROGER KEIL, K. MURAT GUENEY, AND MURAT UECOGLU1. Peripheries against Peripheries: Against Spatial ReificationSTEFAN KIPFER AND MUSTAFA DIKE2. Public Housing, Heroin Addiction, America's Industrial Suburbs: A Planetary Urbanist PerspectiveDAVID WILSON, BASMATTEE BOODRAM, AND JASMINE SMITH B. LEGACIES3. Estates under Pressure: Financialization, Shrinkage and State Restructuring in East GermanyMATTHIAS BERNT4. Learning from the Socialist SuburbSTEVEN LOGAN5. Decline and Renewal in Toronto's Highrise Suburbs: The Tragedy of Progressive NeoliberalismDOUGLAS YOUNG6. Redeveloping Montpellier's Suburban High-Rises: National Policy Meets Local Activism in the Debate over Public SpaceROZA TCHOUKALEYSKA7. (De-)Constructing Housing Estates: How Much More than a Housing Question?STEFAN KIPFER8. From Kayabasi to Kayasehir - A City Grows "Out in the Sticks"ERBATUR CAVUSOGLU AND JULIA STRUTZ9. Building Northern Istanbul: Mega-Projects, Speculation and New SuburbsK. MURAT GUENEY10. Massive Housing and Nature's Limits? The Urban Political Ecology of Istanbul's PeripheryMURAT UECOGLU D. THE SUBURBAN CENTURY11. Morocco's "Pirate Suburbs" from Punishment to Controlled Integration. Neoliberalizing the Regulation of Casablanca's "Chechnya"WAFAE BELARBI AND MAX ROUSSEAU12. State-Led Housing Provision Twenty Years On: Change, Evolution and Agency on Johannesburg's EdgeMARGOT RUBIN AND SARAH CHARLTON13. From Informal Settlements to Harmonious Communities: Professional Squatters and the Many Actors of Urbanization in Metro ManilaABIDEMI COKER14. Suburbanisms of Ethnocracy: Building New Peripheries in Israel/PalestineODED HAAS15. The Making of Cairo's Vast Planned Periphery: Particularities and Parallels Revealed through an Examination of Four Suburban Cultural AssemblagesKARL SCHMID16. Massive Suburbanization, Heterogeneous Suburbs in ChinaTIANKE ZHU AND FULONG WUConclusion: Massive Suburbia: From the Legacy of the Habitat to the Financialization of Housing in the Planetary PeripheryK. MURAT GUENEY, ROGER KEIL AND MURAT UECOGLUAuthor Biographies
