After Suburbia – Urbanization in the Twenty–First Century Keil Wu Hardback

After SuburbiaUrbanization in the Twenty-First Century\nAuthor(s): Roger Keil, Fulong Wu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487504878, 978-1487504878\nSynopsis\nAfter Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planets urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.\n\n Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly adva.