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, 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."
Contents
Acknowledgments
A. RE-THINKING THE MASSIVE PERIPHERY
Introduction: Massive Suburbanization - Political Economy, Ethnography, Governance
ROGER KEIL, K. MURAT GÜNEY, AND MURAT ÜÇOĞLU
1. Peripheries against Peripheries: Against Spatial Reification
STEFAN KIPFER AND MUSTAFA DIKE
2. Public Housing, Heroin Addiction, America's Industrial Suburbs: A Planetary Urbanist Perspective
DAVID WILSON, BASMATTEE BOODRAM, AND JASMINE SMITH
B. LEGACIES
3. Estates under Pressure: Financialization, Shrinkage and State Restructuring in East Germany
MATTHIAS BERNT
4. Learning from the Socialist Suburb
STEVEN LOGAN
5. Decline and Renewal in Toronto's Highrise Suburbs: The Tragedy of Progressive Neoliberalism
DOUGLAS YOUNG
6. Redeveloping Montpellier's Suburban High-Rises: National Policy Meets Local Activism in the Debate over Public Space
ROZA TCHOUKALEYSKA
7. (De-)Constructing Housing Estates: How Much More than a Housing Question?
STEFAN KIPFER
C. SPOTLIGHT ON ISTANBUL
8. From Kayabası to Kayasehir - A City Grows "Out in the Sticks"
ERBATUR ÇAVUŞOĞLU AND JULIA STRUTZ
9. Building Northern Istanbul: Mega-Projects, Speculation and New Suburbs
K. MURAT GÜNEY
10. Massive Housing and Nature's Limits? The Urban Political Ecology of Istanbul's Periphery
MURAT ÜÇOĞLU
D. THE SUBURBAN CENTURY
11. Morocco's "Pirate Suburbs" from Punishment to Controlled Integration. Neoliberalizing the Regulation of Casablanca's "Chechnya"
WAFAE BELARBI AND MAX ROUSSEAU
12. State-Led Housing Provision Twenty Years On: Change, Evolution and Agency on Johannesburg's Edge
MARGOT RUBIN AND SARAH CHARLTON
13. From Informal Settlements to Harmonious Communities: Professional Squatters and the Many Actors of Urbanization in Metro Manila
ABIDEMI COKER
14. Suburbanisms of Ethnocracy: Building New Peripheries in Israel/Palestine
ODED HAAS
15. The Making of Cairo's Vast Planned Periphery: Particularities and Parallels Revealed through an Examination of Four Suburban Cultural Assemblages
KARL SCHMID
16. Massive Suburbanization, Heterogeneous Suburbs in China
TIANKE ZHU AND FULONG WU
Conclusion: Massive Suburbia: From the Legacy of the Habitat to the Financialization of Housing in the Planetary Periphery
K. MURAT GÜNEY, ROGER KEIL AND MURAT ÜÇOĞLU
Author Biographies
