Contents:
--Introduction
Part I: Suburban Definitions and Descriptions --
1. Defining Suburbs --
Ann Forsyth --
2. Suburban Stereotypes --
Richard Harris --
3. In what sense a Postsuburban Era? --
Nicholas Phelps --
Part II: Global Perspectives on the Suburbs --
4. Toward a Comparative Global Suburbanism --
Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil --
5. Suburbanization in Latin America --
Lawrence Herzog -- 6. Suburbanization in Australia --
Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph, and Simon Pinnegar --
7. Suburbanization in Europe: A Focus on Dublin --
Ruth McManus --
8. Suburbanization in Asia: A Focus on India --
Annapurna Shaw --
9. Suburbanization in Asia: A Focus on Jakarta --
Deden Rukmana, Fikri Zul Fahmi, and Tommy Firman --
10. Suburbanization in Asia: A Focus on Seoul --
Chang Gyu Choi and Sugie Lee --
Part III: Diversity, Exclusion, and Poverty in the Suburbs --
11. Queer Suburbs: (Sub)urban Spaces and Sexualities in the Global North --
Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash --
12. Inequality and Poverty in the Suburbs: The Case of Metropolitan Cairo --
Erina Iwasaki --
13. Social Exclusion and Multiethnic Suburbs in Sweden --
Magnus Dahlstedt and David Ekholm --
14. Uneven Development and the Making of Rio de Janeiro --
Anjuli Fahlberg --
15. Dividing the Metropolis: Political History of Suburban Incorporation in the United .States --
Jon Teaford --
16. Immigrants in the Suburbs of the U.S. --
Kyle Walker --
17. Poverty in U.S. Suburbs --
Katrin Anacker --
18. From Sanford to Ferguson: Race, Poverty, and Protest in the American Suburb --
Willow Lung-Amam andAlex Schafran --
19. Stigma and the U.S. Suburb --
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki and Cody Price --
Part IV: Planning, Public Policy, and Reshaping the Suburbs --
20. Metropolitan Governance in Paris --
Theresa Enright --
21. The French Banlieue:Renovating the Suburbs: --
Juliet Carpenter --
22. Shrinking Suburbs in a Time of Crisis --
Justin Hollander, Colin Polsky, Dan Zinder, and Dan Runfola --
23. Redesigning the Suburbs: New Towns and Master-Planned Suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s --
Lisa Benton-Short --
24. Keeping up with the Jones: Residential Reinvestment and Mansionization in American Inner-ring Suburbs --
Suzanne Charles --
25. Planning and the Cultural Landscapes of Suburban Turkey --
Bahar Durmaz-Drinkwater, Jaap Vos and Asli Ceylan ner --
26. Cultural Production in the Suburban Context --
Allison Bain --
Part V: Conclusion and Future Prospects --
27. The End of the Suburbs --
John Rennie Short --
28. Conclusion and Future Research on Global Suburbs --
Bernadette Hanlon and Thomas J. Vicino ----Index

Summary:
The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This volume brings together the leading scholars of the suburbs researching in different parts of the world to better understand how and why suburbs and their communities grow, decline, and regenerate. The volume sets out four goals: 1) to provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of the historical and current state of understanding about the development of suburbs in the world; 2) to provide a forum for a comprehensive examination into the conceptual, theoretical, spatial, and empirical discontents of suburbanization; 3) to engage in a scholarly conversation about the transformation of suburbs that is interdisciplinary in nature and bridges the divide between the Global North and the Global South; and 4) to reflect on the implications of the socioeconomic, cultural, and political transformations of the suburbs for policymakers and planners. The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs is composed of original, scholarly contributions from the leading scholars of the study of how and why suburbs grow, decline, and transform. Special attention is paid to the global nature of suburbanization and its regional variations, with a focus on comparative analysis of suburbs through regions across the world in the Global North and the Global South. Articulated in a common voice, the volume is integrated by the very nature of the concept of a suburb as the unit of analysis, offering multidisciplinary perspectives from the fields of economics, geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.