The Life of North American Suburbs

Jan Nijman is Director and Distinguished University Professor at the Urban Studies Institute of Georgia State University, and professor of Geography at the University of Amsterdam.

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Preface

1. Introduction: Elusive Suburbia
Jan Nijman

Part 1: Questioning North American Suburbia
2. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa
Richard Harris
3. Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries
Liette Gilbert
4. Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami
Jan Nijman and Tom Clery
5. Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region
Fang Wei and Paul Knox

Part 2: Changing Political Economies of Suburbanization
6. The Strange Case of the Bay Area
Richard Walker and Alex Schafran
7. Vancouverism as Suburbanism
Elliot Siemiatycki, Jamie Peck, and Elvin Wyly
8. Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis?
Claire Poitras and Pierre Hamel
9. New York’s Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region
James Defilippis and Christopher Niedt

Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and the Remaking of Suburbia
10. Diverging Racial Geographies in Phoenix’s Postwar and Post–Civil Rights Suburbs
Deirdre Pfeiffer
11. Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the “Black Mecca”
Katherine Hankins and Steve Holloway
12. Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan
Rob Shields, Dianne Gillespie, and Kieran Moran
13. Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago
David Wilson

Part 4: Contested Suburbs
14. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles
Roger Keil and Derek Brunelle
15. Reaching Suburbia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa
Caroline Andrew and Angela Franovic
16. Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Canadian Cities
Jill L. Grant
17. Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces
Jan Nijman

Contributors
Index