Description:
The book takes a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures. Cases highlight similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.
Brief description:
Pierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo.
Review Quotes:
"While this book contributes to the nascent field of suburban studies, it does so from an explicit infrastructural perspective. Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures is a timely contribution. I am really impressed by the quality of the individual contributions but, most of all, by the editors' success at presenting them in a coherent manner and engaging them in an integrated argument."
--Vanesa Castán Broto, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield"Using cutting-edge scholarship and institutional, social, and environmental analyses, Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures reveals the complex and varied interactions between infrastructure, urban development, and suburban lifestyles."
--Theresa Enright, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto"This collection makes a significant and much-needed contribution to continuing debates on infrastructure and metropolitan dynamics."
--Nik Luka, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and School of Urban Planning, McGill University