International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World?

298 Pages·2011·9.066 MB·English

by  Nicholas A. Phelps, Fulong Wu (eds.)

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
ON SUBURBANIZATION
A Post-Suburban World?
EdITEd By NICHOLAS A. PHELPS ANd FULONG WU
International Perspectives on Suburbanization
Also by Nicholas A. Phelps
POST-SUBURBAN EUROPE: Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe’s
Capital Cities (co-authored)
THE NEW COMPETITION FOR INWARD INVESTMENT: Companies,
Institutions and Regional Development (co-edited)
FDI AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: Corporate and Institutional Dynamics of
Global-Localisation (co-edited)
MULTINATIONALS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: Trade, Investment and
regional Development
Also by Fulong Wu
MARGINALIZATION IN URBAN CHINA: Comparative Perspectives (co-edited)
CHINA’S URBAN POVERTY (co-authored)
CHINA’S EMERGING CITIES: The making of New Urbanism (edited)
URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN POST-REFORM CHINA: State, Market and Space
(co-authored)
GLOBALIZATION AND THE CHINESE CITY (edited)
RESTRUCTURING THE CHINESE CITY: Changing Society, Economy and Space
(co-edited)
GEODYNAMICS (co-edited)
International Perspectives
on Suburbanization
A Post-Suburban World?
Edited By
Nicholas A. Phelps
University College London, UK
Fulong Wu
Cardiff University, UK
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International perspectives on suburbanization : a post-suburban world? /
edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Fulong Wu.
p. cm.
Summary: “New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses
and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions
across the world. This book examines the processes of post-
suburbanization in international perspective, exploring how
developments across the world might be considered post-suburban”
– Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-230-27639-0
1. Cities and towns. 2. Sociology, Urban. 3. Regional planning.
I. Phelps, N. A. (Nicholas A.) II. Wu, Fulong.
HT119.I58 2011
307.76–dc22 2011012457
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Maps viii
List of Tables ix
Preface x
Notes on Contributors xii
1 Introduction: International Perspectives on 1
Suburbanization: A Post-suburban World?
Nicholas A. Phelps and Fulong Wu
Part I City, Suburb, Post-suburb 13
2 Suburbia and Post-suburbia: A Brief History 15
Jon C. Teaford
3 The Restless Landscape of Metroburbia 35
Elisabeth Chaves, Paul Knox and David Bieri
4 Post-suburbia and City-region Politics 54
Roger Keil and Douglas Young
Part II Post-suburbia in the Americas 79
5 Post-suburban Regionalism: From Local Politics 81
of Exclusion to Regional Politics of Economic
Development
Andrew E.G. Jonas
6 Privatization of the Fringes – A Latin American 101
Version of Post-suburbia? The Case of Santiago de Chile
Dirk Heinrichs, Michael Lukas and Henning Nuissl
7 From Country Club to Edge City? Gated Residential 122
Communities and the Transformation of Pilar,
Argentina
Sonia Roitman and Nicholas A. Phelps
v
vi Contents
Part III Post-suburbia and Europe’s Compact Cities 141
8 Post-suburbia in Continental Europe 143
Marco Bontje and Joachim Burdack
9 Post-suburbia in the Context of Urban Containment: 163
The Case of the South East of England
Allan Cochrane
10 Khimki in Moscow City-region: From ‘Closed City’ 177
to ‘Edge City’?
Oleg Golubchikov, Nicholas A. Phelps and Alla Makhrova
Part IV Varieties of Post-suburbia in East Asia 193
11 Post-suburban Elements in an Asian Extended 195
Metropolitan Region: The Case of Jabodetabek (Jakarta
Metropolitan Area)
Tommy Firman
12 Post-suburban Tokyo? Urbanization, Suburbanization, 210
Reurbanization
André Sorensen
13 New Towns for Suburbs? Developmental State Politics 225
and New Town Development in Seoul Metropolitan
Region
Yong-Sook Lee and HaeRan Shin
14 Conclusion: Post-suburban Worlds? 245
Fulong Wu and Nicholas A. Phelps
References 258
Index 284
List of Figures
4.1 Low density detached ownership housing in the 67
City of Vaughan (photograph, Doug Young)
4.2 High-rise rental housing in the Jane Finch neighbourhood 68
in the City of Toronto (photograph, Doug Young)
4.3 Frankfurt region southwest view from the city centre 74
(photograph, Roger Keil)
6.1 Shopping complex and artificial lagoon in Piedra Roja 113
(photograph, Michael Lukas)
6.2 Houses in Piedra Roja (photograph, Michael Lukas) 113
vii
List of Maps
3.1 The location of new affluence in the greater 37
Washington DC MSA
4.1 Map of a portion of Toronto’s in-between city 62
indicating its complex landscape
4.2 Map of the Frankfurt region (land use) 70
5.1 Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire 88
5.2 The I-495 region 94
6.1 Megaprojects in the metropolitan region of 105
Santiago de Chile
7.1 The metropolitan region of Buenos Aires 129
8.1 Paris: New economic poles in the metropolitan area 150
8.2 Budapest: Suburban and post-suburban developments 158
in the metropolitan periphery
10.1 The spatial structure and new development projects 181
in Khimki
11.1 Jabodetabek region within Indonesia 197
13.1 New towns in the Seoul metropolitan area 234
viii
List of Tables
1.1 Urban development processes and relationships 6
among settlement types
14.1 Contrasts in post-suburbia 256
ix