Suburban Constellations, released in September, gets reviewed in this blog post at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Author Fabian Neuhaus discusses the scope and breadth of the essays in the book saying, "it does surprise the reader with raw concepts and very direct lines thought making for a joyful read. Further more it […]
Publications
Huffington Post considers A Suburban Revolution
Huffington Post columnist writer Hassan Arif talks about the Suburban Revolution conference in his Oct. 7 article. Arif writes about how preconceptions of suburbs are being shattered and discusses key events at the conference, including the release of the Roundtable Report of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group and the gala screening of HIGHRISE: Out […]
Roundtable Report shows suburbs aren't substandard
York Region Media Group reporter Sean Pearce was among those who attended the launch of the Roundtable Report of the Greater Toronto Working Group. In his Oct. 2 article, he talks to co-authors Sean Hertel and Roger Keil about the changing perception of GTA suburbs.
Collaborative Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group Launches Roundtable Report
The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Working Group's Roundtable Report was launched today at the Suburban Revolution conference at York University. Co-authors Sean Hertel and Roger Keil unveiled the report that includes 10 essays about the changing face of the Greater Toronto Area from academics, community members and practitioners, working together to address the challenges facing […]
New research on decentralization and regional planning in China
Global Suburbanisms researchers Yi Li and Fulong Wu have published The emergence of centrally initiated regional plan in China: A case study of Yangtze River Delta Regional Plan, appearing in the July 2013 edition of Habitat International. From the abstract: "China has recently seen the proliferation of regional plans. This paper tries to understand the development […]
Green Oslo hits shelves, with chapter on Green Suburbanisms
Per Gunnar Røe co-edited the new book, Green Oslo:Visions, Planning and Discourse and also has a chapter in it entitled "Green Suburbanisms: Differentiating the Greenness of Suburbs". The book is now available from Ashgate.
New Publication: "The development of master-planned communities in Chinese suburbs" by Shen & Wu
"The development of master-planned communities in Chinese suburbs: A case study of Shanghai's Thames Town", by Jie Shen (Cardiff University) and Fulong Wu (University College, London), published in Urban Geography, explores the emergence of residential enclaves in China and seeks to understand how these enclaves, often associated with the consumption of luxury housing, are developed […]
New Publication: "Governing Suburbia", by Ekers, Hamel and Keil
"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 […]
New Governance Publication by Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck's new article, "Neoliberal Suburbanism: Frontier Space", has been published in Urban Geography. The research for the paper was supported by the "Global Suburbanisms" Major Collaborative Research Initiative under the Governance project, and an earlier draft was presented at the Suburban Governance Workshop held in Leipzig in the summer of 2011. From the abstract: […]
