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.
Table of Contents
1. Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
Paul J. Maginn and Katrin B. Anacker
Part I: Representations of Suburbia
2. Fixing Post-suburbia: Recalibrating the Way we Think, Speak, and Act Upon Toronto’s Periphery
Roger Keil and Sean Hertel
3. Master Planned and Active Lifestyles Developments in Australia: Gerotopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?
Caryl Bosman and Keith Jacobs
4. Suburban Shopping Malls in Melbourne, Australia: Changing Roles and Impacts as New Town Centres for Diverse Communities
Robin Goodman and Elizabeth Taylor
5. Liminal Space, Film Noir, and the Production of the (American) Suburb
Mark Luccarelli and Per Gunnar Røe
Part 2: To Suburbia and Beyond
6. The Canadian Dream? Growth Trends in Canada’s Suburban and Urban Neighbourhoods
David L.A Gordon
7. Place Attachment in Non-Place Spaces? Community, Belonging and Mobilities in ‘Post-Suburban’ South East England
David Allen and Paul Watt
8. Does Galicia Experience Suburbanisation? (Sub)Urban Processes, Morphologies, and Planning on the Morrazo Peninsula
Martín Barreiro and Valerià Paül
9. Suburban Housing Estates in Finland: Historic Development and Contemporary Challenges
Mats Stjernberg
Part III: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
10. Worlds Away in Suburbia: The Changing Geography of High-Poverty Neighbourhoods in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
Willow Lung-Amam, Katrin B. Anacker and Nicholas Finio
11. End of the (Sub)Urban Dream? The Foreclosure Crisis and Unmarried Partnered, Same-Sex Households in the United States
Katrin B. Anacker
12. Between the Suburbs and the Banlieue
Alex Schafran and Yohann Le Moigne
13.No Soft Landing for the Suburbs: Credit, Debt, and the Fracturing of the Suburban Dream in Ireland
Declan Redmond and Cian O’Callaghan
Conclusions
14. Covid-19 (Sub)Urbanisms: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
Paul J. Maginn and Katrin B. Anacker
