Suburban Governance: A Global View

‘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

“Suburban Governance is a landmark volume for the consolidation of global urban studies, making an important contribution to a new generation of scholarship marking out the opportunities for inventive theorization and the renewal of the conceptual landscape of the field. It sets a new standard for the growing commitment to post-colonialize urban studies.” Jennifer Robinson, Department of Geography, University College London

“Suburban Governance is an important contribution to intellectual discussions about suburbanization. This collection is very much up there with the best work on critical urban theory.” Andrew E.G. Jonas, Department of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, University of Hull

“This collection provides compelling insight into the global nature of suburban development and the various ways in which the dynamics of (sub)urban development play out in different political and economic contexts.” Andrew Wood, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky