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Title The suburban land question : a global survey / edited by Richard Harris and Ute Lehrer
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Global suburbanisms
Global suburbanisms.
Contents 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 Planning7 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 RegionConclusion: What Are the Suburban Land Questions?; Contributors; Index
Summary The purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Suburbs -- Case studies
Cities and towns -- Growth -- Case studies
City planning -- Case studies
Land subdivision -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Land subdivision
Suburbs
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Harris, Richard, 1952- editor.
Lehrer, Ute, editor
ISBN 9781442620629
1442620625
9781442649590
1442649593