"Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance", by Michael Ekers (University of Toronto), Pierre Hamel (Université de Montréal) and Roger Keil (York University), published in Regional Studies, traces the major modalities of suburban governance through a literature review. The authors find evidence for three distinct but complementary modalities: the state, capital accumulation and private authoritarianism; these modalities are interrelated and the authors consider not just how they influence the processes of suburbanization, but suburbanisms: the ways of life particular to suburbs.

This article was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through funding from the Major Collaborative Research Initiative, "Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century". An earlier version of the paper was presented at the Workshop on Suburban Governance held in Leipzig, Germany, June 30-July 3 2011.

Ekers, M. Hamel, P. & Keil, R. (2012) Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance. Regional Studies, 46:3, 405-422.