The road to and from the airport in many national settings presents a seemingly familiar sight. Typically congested roads allow the observer to register new urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses, retail complexes with gated residential developments often in close attendance in configurations that appear common throughout the world. In the United States these developments have prompted new terms such as edge city, edgeless city and technoburb in an attempt to signal a break with processes of urbanization that produced traditional residential suburbs. In posing the question of whether we live in a distinctly post-suburban world, this book is the first systematic attempt to explore the salience and nature of processes post-suburbanization in international perspective. Drawing on thematic chapters covering the history, form and politics of contemporary urbanization and on examples from the Americas, Europe and Asia the book elaborates on the manner in which contemporary developments in the outer reaches of city-regions across the world might be considered post-suburban.
Preface PART I: CITY, SUBURB AND POST-SUBURB Introduction: International Perspectives on Suburbanisation: A Post-suburban World?; N. A. Phelps & F. Wu Suburbia and Post-suburbia: A Brief History; J. C. Teaford The Restless Landscape of Metroburbia Elisabeth Chaves; P. Knox & D. Bieri Post-suburbia and City-region Politics; R. Keil & D. Young PART II: POST-SUBURBIA IN THE AMERICAS Post-suburban Regionalism: From Local Politics of Exclusion to Regional Politics of Economic Development; A. E. Jonas Privatisation of the Fringes -- A Latin American Version of Post-suburbia: The Case of Santiago de Chile Dirk Heinrichs; M. Lukas & H. Nuissl From Country Club to Edge city? Gated Residential Communities and the Transformation of Pilar, Argentina; S. Roitman & N. A. Phelps PART III: POST-SUBURBIA AND EUROPES COMPACT CITIES Post-suburbia in Continental Europe; M. Bontje and J. Burdack Post-suburbia in the Context of Urban Containment: The Case of the South East of England; A. Cochrane Khimki in Moscow City-region: From closed city to edge city?; O. Golubchikov, N. A. Phelps & A. Makhrova PART IV: VARIETIES OF POST-SUBURBIA IN EAST ASIA Post suburban Elements in an Asian Extended Metropolitan Region: Jabodetabek (Jakarta metropolitan area); T. Firman Post-suburban Tokyo? Urbanization, Suburbanization, Reurbanization; A. Sorensen New Towns for Suburbs? Developmental State Politics and New Town Development in Seoul Metropolitan Region; Y-SLee & H. Shin Conclusion: Post Suburban Worlds?; F. Wu & N. A. Phelps Notes References Index