Suburban Planet

Roger Keil is Professor and York Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies and former Director of the CITY Institute at York University, Toronto

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Suburbanization Explained3 Suburban Theory4 Suburban Studies5 From Lakewood to Ferguson6 Beyond the Picket Fence: Global Suburbia7 Suburban Infrastructures8 The Urban Political Ecology of Suburbanization9 The Political SuburbNotesReferences

"Keil provides a crucial theoretical underpinning to show how a plurality of suburbanization processes are multifariously linked to urban expansion yet constitute their own force and way of existing. This is the first book I know to really engage this heterogeneity with all of its problems, weird splendor, and ambivalent potentiality."AbdouMaliq Simone, Goldsmiths, University of London "Suburban Planet is a major contribution to the theoretical and policy debates that are emerging in the increasingly urbanized twenty-first century. It is in the spatially 'exploding' urban places that the urban drama of the 21st century will be played out against a background of economic volatility, social tension and environmental risk."Terry McGee, University of British Columbia