Suburban Governance

Pierre Hamel is a professor emeritus of sociology at the Université de Montréal.Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.

• Introduction: Governance in a Suburban World (Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil)Section 1: Suburban Governance1. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance (Michael Ekers, Pierre Hamel, and Roger Keil)2. A Note on Governance: More Intervening Variables, Please (Robert Young)Section 2: Suburban Governance in the Classical Anglo-Saxon Cases3. The United States: Suburban Imaginaries and Metropolitan Realities (Jan Nijman and Tom Clery)4. Modalities of Suburban Governance in Canada (Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Elena Chou, and Kieran Williams)5. Governing Suburban Australia (Louise C. Johnson)6. Chicago-School Suburbanism (Jamie Peck)Section 3: The Existing Alternatives7. Suburban Governance in Western Europe (Nicholas A. Phelps and Amparo Tarazona Vento)8. Suburbia in Three Acts: The East European Story (Sonia Hirt and Atanas Kovachev)9. Governing Shrinkage of Large Housing Estates at the Fringe (Sigrun Kabisch and Dieter Rink)10. Suburbanization in Latin America: Towards New Authoritarian Modes of Governance at the Urban Margin (Dirk Heinrichs and Henning Nuissl)11. On the Relations of Culture and Suburbia: How to Give Meaning to the Suburban Landscape? (Thomas Sieverts)Section 4: The Emerging Models 12. Africa’s New Suburbs (Robin Bloch)13. Shifting Terrain: Questions of Governance in India’s Cities and Their Peripheries (Shubhra Gururani and Burak Kose)14. Suburban Development and Governance in China (Fulong Wu and Jie Shen)15. Deconstructing the Decentralized Urban Spaces of the Mega-Urban Regions in the Global South (Terry McGee)16. Governing the Postcolonial Suburbs (Ananya Roy)Conclusion: Suburban Governance: Convergent and Divergent Dynamics (Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel)

‘Many of the book’s essays offer rewarding and provocative overviews of suburban development in particular countries and regions and deserve to be read by anyone interested in the diverse ways in which suburbanization is changing our world.’- Andrew Sancton (Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015) ‘The authors of this book should be applauded for providing us with a volume that stimulates discussion on the meaning of the (sub) urban and governance in today’s global (sub)urbanization.’- Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research October 2016) ‘I would advise anyone interested in understanding suburban processes in a global context to read this book.’- Bernadette Hanlon (Journal of Planning Education and Research vol 37:01:2017)