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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pierre Filion , Nina M. PulverPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.720kg ISBN: 9781487504953ISBN 10: 1487504950 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 30 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"1. Introduction: The Scope and Scales of Suburban Infrastructure Section 1: Situating Suburban Infrastructures 2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure? 3. Rescaling the Suburban: New Directions in the Relationship Between Governance and Infrastructure 4. Financial Infrastructures of Suburbanism: From Suburbanization to Value Extraction Section 2: Suburban Infrastuctures in Crisis 5. Phases of Neoliberal Infrastructure: Dynamic Capitalist and Institutional Learning in the Neoliberal Experiment Test Zones of Post-Soviet Europe 6. ""Designed to Fail"": Technopolitics of Disavowal in an Urbanizing Frontier of India 7. Governance by Crises and Failing Infrastructure in Michigan: The 21st Century Republican Strategy 8. Infrastructure Interludes: Socio-technical Disposition and Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems in the Stockholm Archipelago 9. Suburban Constellations of Water Supply and Sanitation in Hanoi iii Section 3: Reshaping Suburban Infrastructures 10. The ""In-Between Territories"" of Suburban Infrastructure Politics 11. Recentralization and Green Infrastructures: Seeking Compatibility between Alternatives to North American Suburban Development 12. ‘Green Infrastructure’: The Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt as Urban Boundary? 13. Building on Quick Sand: Infrastructural Megaprojects in China 14. Retrofitting Obsolete Suburbs – Networks, Fixes and Divisions 15. Sustainability as an Urban Way of Living: The Uneven Outcomes of ""Sustainable Mobility Infrastructure"" Planning Conclusion: Global Suburban Infrastructure Trajectories"ReviewsWhile this book contributes to the nascent field of suburban studies, it does so from an explicit infrastructural perspective. Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures is a timely contribution. I am really impressed by the quality of the individual contributions but, most of all, by the editors' success at presenting them in a coherent manner and engaging them in an integrated argument. - Vanesa Castan Broto, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield This collection makes a significant and much-needed contribution to continuing debates on infrastructure and metropolitan dynamics. - Nik Luka, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and School of Urban Planning, McGill University Using cutting-edge scholarship and institutional, social, and environmental analyses, Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures reveals the complex and varied interactions between infrastructure, urban development, and suburban lifestyles. - Theresa Enright, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto While this book contributes to the nascent field of suburban studies, it does so from an explicit infrastructural perspective. Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures is a timely contribution. I am really impressed by the quality of the individual contributions but, most of all, by the editors' success at presenting them in a coherent manner and engaging them in an integrated argument. - Vanesa Castan Broto, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Author InformationPierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. Nina M.Pulver is a PhD candidate in Planning at the University of Waterloo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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