The Suburban Land Question : A Global Survey.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
- Global Suburbanisms Series .
- Global Suburbanisms Series .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Prologue: A Photo Essay on the Spatial Morphology of Suburban Land Development -- 1 The Suburban Land Question: Introduction -- 2 Alternative Peripheries: Socialist Mass Housing Compared with Modern Suburbia -- 3 Differentiated Landscapes of Suburban Property: Path Dependence and the Political Logics of Landownership Rules -- 4 Planetary Urbanization in Zurich: A Territorial Approach for Urban Analysis -- 5 The Morphology of Dispersed Suburbanism: The Land-use Patterns of the Dominant North American Urban Form -- 6 The Paradox of Informality and Formality: China's Suburban Land Development and Planning -- 7 Comparing Recent Suburban Developments in Austria and the Netherlands -- 8 Factors Affecting Development Patterns in the Suburbs of Small to Mid-Sized Canadian Cities -- 9 Latin America: The Suburb Is the City -- 10 Urban Governance, Land Use, and Housing Affordability: A Transatlantic Comparison -- 11 An Effective Public Partnership for Suburban Land Development: Fleurhof, Johannesburg -- 12 Production of Land for Real Estate Markets in the Suburban Area of Chennai Metropolis: The Case of Sriperumbudur-Oragadam Region -- Conclusion: What Are the Suburban Land Questions? -- Contributors -- Index.
The purpose of The Suburban Land Questionis to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world.
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Suburbs-Case studies-Congresses. Land use-Case studies-Congresses. City planning-Case studies-Congresses. Cities and towns-Growth-Case studies-Congresses.