Contents
Acknowledgments 8
Introduction 10
1 The Drive for Upward 24
Social Mobility
1.1 The Anti suburban Crusade
Robert Bruegmann 26
1.2 The Divided Metropolis: The Suburb and the Explosion of Globa Urbanization
Robert Fishman 38
1.3 Suburbia as a Class Issue
Joel Kotkin 56
1.4 Millennials’ Hearts Are in the Suburbs
Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais 66
1.5 Suburban Holy Land
D.J. Waldie 78
1.6 Mexico’s Suburban Dream
Guenola Capron and Martha de Alba 88
1.7 Australia’s Misplaced War on the Suburban Dream
Ross Elliott 104
1.8 How Britain’s Greenbelts Choke Suburbs and Force Up Prices
James Heartfield 114
1.9 The Myth of Homogeneous Suburbia
Jon C. Teaford 126
1.10 Reexamining Dace and Ethnicity in the Suburbs
Ali Modarres 134
1.11 The Grorud Valley: Borderline Suburbia Espen Aukrust Hauglin and Janike Kampevold Larsen 146
2 Polycentric Metropolitan Form 162
2.1 Engaging with the Planet’s Urban Expansion Shlomo Angel and Alejandro M. Blei, with Daniel L. Civco, Nicolas Galarza Sanchez, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Jason Parent, and Kevin Thom 164
2.2 Sprawl of the Century: Contemporary Chinese Suburbia
Thomas J. Campanella 178
2.3 Measuring Urban Cores and Suburbs in the United States Wendell Cox 196
2.4 The Continued Suburbanization of America 208
Jed Kolko
2.5 Transport Defines Suburbia David L.A. Gordon 222
2.6 Interburbia: Ground Truthing US Metropolitan Urbanization
Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Casey Lance Brown, and Alan M.Berger 232
2.7 Driving While Suburban Alan E. Pisarski 252
2.8 Megaregional Australia in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Weller and Julian Bolleter 264
2.9 Health, Transportation, and the Community-Built Environment
Michael Brauer 280
2.10 Health Advantages in Suburbs
Bridget Catlin 290
3 Metropolitan Economic Interrelationship 304
3.1 Trading Places among Cities and Suburbs William T.Bogart 306
3.2 Suburbs in the Metropolitan Economy Nicholas A. Phelps 314
3.3 Why Should Suburbs Care about Cities?
Michael Hollar 328
3.4 Six Types of High Technology Districts Ann Forsyth 336
3.5 Creative Suburbia: Cultural Innovation in Outer Suburban Australia
Mark Gibson, Terry Flew, Christy Collis, and Emma Felton 350
3.6 The Global Suburb: Divesting from the World’s White Picket Fences
Roger Keil 360
3.7 Spain’s Speculative Urbanization 378
Christopher Marcinkoski
3.8 Navi Mumbai: From New Town to Suburbia
Rahul Mehrotra and Kanika Arora Sharma 398
3.9 Postsuburban Johannesburg
Martin J. Murray 414
3.10 Subtracting the Suburbs
Keller Easterling 428