Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe’s Capital Cities

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 9
List of Table......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1.1 Californication?......Page 16
1.2 Post-suburbia: A brief history of forms......Page 21
1.3 Centre, edge, hinterland......Page 24
1.4 Placing post-suburbia......Page 26
1.5 Structure of the book......Page 27
2.1 Introduction......Page 31
2.2 Functionally dynamic or administratively created post-suburbia?......Page 32
2.3 Alternate agents: The producers of post-suburbia......Page 38
2.4 Fungible functions: The dynamism of post-suburban Europe – economic, social and political......Page 44
2.5 Friable forms: Post-suburbia’s internal coherence and enlarged spaces of engagement......Page 47
2.6 Conclusion......Page 55
3.1 Introduction......Page 57
3.2 Trans-European local authority networking......Page 58
3.3 The European edge cities network......Page 64
3.4 Towards a European post-suburban identity......Page 67
3.5 Benefits of networking......Page 72
3.6 Barriers to collaboration and the transfer of knowledge......Page 74
3.7 Balance of co-operation and competition......Page 79
3.8 Conclusion......Page 81
4.1 Introduction......Page 83
4.2 ‘Thinking Greek’: A philosophy of urban development in Greece from the Republic to Metapolis......Page 86
4.3 Kifissia: Playground of the Athenians......Page 95
4.4 Post-suburban growing pains: Conservation versus growth......Page 102
4.5 The subterranean politics of growth in Kifissia......Page 105
4.6 Conclusion......Page 108
5.1 Introduction......Page 110
5.2 The cities of the plains: El reino de taifas......Page 112
5.3 Getafe and the ‘Gran Sur’: Political mobilisation within the metropolitan space......Page 119
5.4 The making of the ‘capital of the south’......Page 121
5.5 Party politics, personality and the politics of place-making......Page 130
5.6 Conclusion......Page 134
6.1 Introduction......Page 135
6.2 Maps of no meaning: Noisy-le-Grand – A State-created nowhere?......Page 137
6.3 A nowhere in search of an identity......Page 144
6.4 Embedding business: From space to place?......Page 153
6.5 Conclusion......Page 159
7.1 Introduction......Page 161
7.2 Urbanisation and polarisation in the Nordic welfare system......Page 163
7.3 Gardens of dystopia? The planning of Espoo......Page 167
7.4 A Finnish growth machine?......Page 178
7.5 Back to the future? The city without a centre......Page 183
7.6 Conclusion......Page 185
8.1 Introduction......Page 187
8.2 Contrary Croydon......Page 188
8.3 Croydon’s urban regime......Page 192
8.4 The Croydonisation of South London......Page 198
8.5 Business at the margins?......Page 205
8.6 Conclusion......Page 211
9.1 Introduction: The city as collective actor?......Page 212
9.2 Collective action and the making of post-suburbia......Page 214
9.3 Post-suburban prospects......Page 217
9.4 Closer to the edge: Future directions for research......Page 221
Appendix 1 Interview Sources......Page 223
Notes......Page 226
References......Page 229
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P......Page 246
T......Page 247
Y......Page 248