Description:
Suburban Governance: A Global View is a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world's suburban spaces and everyday life within them.
Brief description:
Pierre Hamel is a professor emeritus of sociology at the Université de Montréal.
Review Quotes:
'Many of the book's essays offer rewarding and provocative overviews of suburban development in particular countries and regions and deserve to be read by anyone interested in the diverse ways in which suburbanization is changing our world.'
--Andrew Sancton, Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015'The authors of this book should be applauded for providing us with a volume that stimulates discussion on the meaning of the (sub) urban and governance in today's global (sub)urbanization.'
--Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research October 2016'I would advise anyone interested in understanding suburban processes in a global context to read this book.'
--Bernadette Hanlon, Journal of Planning Education and Research vol 37:01:2017