Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures

Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures

Contemporary International Cases

In: Global Suburbanisms

Edited by: Pierre Filion and Nina M. Pulver

University of Toronto Press | 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487531225

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The book takes a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures. Cases highlight similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.

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FilionPierre:

Pierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo.
PulverNina M. :

Nina M.Pulver is a PhD candidate in Planning at the University of Waterloo.

Reviews

Nik Luka, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and School of Urban Planning, McGill University:

"This collection makes a significant and much-needed contribution to continuing debates on infrastructure and metropolitan dynamics."

Theresa Enright, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto:

"Using cutting-edge scholarship and institutional, social, and environmental analyses, Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures reveals the complex and varied interactions between infrastructure, urban development, and suburban lifestyles."

Vanesa Castán Broto, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield:

"While this book contributes to the nascent field of suburban studies, it does so from an explicit infrastructural perspective. Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures is a timely contribution. I am really impressed by the quality of the individual contributions but, most of all, by the editors’ success at presenting them in a coherent manner and engaging them in an integrated argument."

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Illustrations, Figures, and Tables Free access PDF PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	xi
1. Introduction: The Scope and Scales of Suburban Infrastructure Pierre Filion, Roger Keil and Nina M. Pulver Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
SECTION 1. Situating Suburban Infrastructures
2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure? Jean-Paul D. Addie Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	45
3. Rescaling the Suburban: New Directions in the Relationship between Governance and Infrastructure Janice Morphet Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
4. Financial Infrastructures of Suburbanism: From Suburbanization to Value Extraction Alan Walks Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	88
SECTION 2. Suburban Infrastructures in Crisis
5. Phases of Neoliberal Infrastructure: Test Zones of Post-Soviet Europe Frederick Peters Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	117
6. “Designed to Fail”: Technopolitics of Sewage in India’s Urban Periphery Shubhra Gururani Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	137
7. Governance by Crises and Failing Infrastructure in Michigan: The 21st-Century Republican Strategy Igor Vojnovic, Zeenat Kotval-K, Jeanette Eckert and Xiaomeng Li Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	157
8. Infrastructure Interludes: Sociotechnical Disposition and Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems in the Stockholm Archipelago Jonathan Rutherford Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	183
9. Suburban Constellations of Water Supply and Sanitation in Hanoi Sophie Schramm and Lucía Wright-Contreras Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	208
SECTION 3. Reshaping Suburban Infrastructures
10. The “In-Between Territories” of Suburban Infrastructure Politics David Wachsmuth Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	233
11. Recentralization and Green Infrastructures: Seeking Compatibility between Alternatives to North American Suburban Development Sara Saboonian and Pierre Filion Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	256
12. “Greenfrastructure”: The Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt as Urban Boundary? Sara Macdonald and Lucy Lynch Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	278
13. Building on Quicksand: Infrastructural Megaprojects in China Xuefei Ren Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	301
14. Retrofitting Obsolete Suburbs: Networks, Fixes, and Divisions Rebecca Ince and Simon Marvin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	318
15. The Uneven Outcomes of Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Planning: The Case of Montreal and Vancouver Commuters Markus Moos and Jonathan Woodside Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	340
16. Conclusion: Unified and Diverse Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures Pierre Filion and Nina M. Pulver Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	365
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	383
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	389

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