Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A. RE-THINKING THE MASSIVE PERIPHERY

Introduction: Massive Suburbanization - Political Economy, Ethnography, Governance
ROGER KEIL, K. MURAT GÜNEY, AND MURAT ÜÇOĞLU

1. Peripheries against Peripheries: Against Spatial Reification
STEFAN KIPFER AND MUSTAFA DIKE

2. Public Housing, Heroin Addiction, America’s Industrial Suburbs: A Planetary Urbanist Perspective
DAVID WILSON, BASMATTEE BOODRAM, AND JASMINE SMITH

B. LEGACIES

3. Estates under Pressure: Financialization, Shrinkage and State Restructuring in East Germany
MATTHIAS BERNT

4. Learning from the Socialist Suburb
STEVEN LOGAN

5. Decline and Renewal in Toronto’s Highrise Suburbs: The Tragedy of Progressive Neoliberalism
DOUGLAS YOUNG

6. Redeveloping Montpellier’s Suburban High-Rises: National Policy Meets Local Activism in the Debate over Public Space
ROZA TCHOUKALEYSKA

7. (De-)Constructing Housing Estates: How Much More than a Housing Question?
STEFAN KIPFER

C. SPOTLIGHT ON ISTANBUL

8. From Kayabası to Kayasehir – A City Grows "Out in the Sticks"
ERBATUR ÇAVUŞOĞLU AND JULIA STRUTZ

9. Building Northern Istanbul: Mega-Projects, Speculation and New Suburbs
K. MURAT GÜNEY

10. Massive Housing and Nature’s Limits? The Urban Political Ecology of Istanbul’s Periphery
MURAT ÜÇOĞLU

D. THE SUBURBAN CENTURY

11. Morocco’s "Pirate Suburbs" from Punishment to Controlled Integration. Neoliberalizing the Regulation of Casablanca’s "Chechnya"
WAFAE BELARBI AND MAX ROUSSEAU

12. State-Led Housing Provision Twenty Years On: Change, Evolution and Agency on Johannesburg’s Edge
MARGOT RUBIN AND SARAH CHARLTON

13. From Informal Settlements to Harmonious Communities: Professional Squatters and the Many Actors of Urbanization in Metro Manila
ABIDEMI COKER

14. Suburbanisms of Ethnocracy: Building New Peripheries in Israel/Palestine
ODED HAAS

15. The Making of Cairo’s Vast Planned Periphery: Particularities and Parallels Revealed through an Examination of Four Suburban Cultural Assemblages
KARL SCHMID

16. Massive Suburbanization, Heterogeneous Suburbs in China
TIANKE ZHU AND FULONG WU

Conclusion: Massive Suburbia: From the Legacy of the Habitat to the Financialization of Housing in the Planetary Periphery
K. MURAT GÜNEY, ROGER KEIL AND MURAT ÜÇOĞLU

Author Biographies

About the Author

K. Murat Güney is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Acıbadem University in İstanbul.

Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.

Murat Üçoğlu is a PhD candidate and course director in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Reviews

" Massive Suburbanization is a theoretically solid, empirically rich, highly readable, and politically relevant volume. This book speaks to actual landscapes that are proliferating today within and around urban regions across the globe."--David J. Madden, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Cities Programme, London School of Economics
"Although they are an important and ubiquitous aspect of urban peripheries around the world, large-scale housing developments have not received any sustained investigation on a global scale. Addressing this important yet under-researched issue, Massive Suburbanization seeks to establish the global diversity of suburbanizations and suburbanisms, as well as to trace the political-economic practices and ideologies that are shaping them." --David Wachsmuth, Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance and Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, McGill University