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Critical perspectives on suburban infrastructures : contemporary international cases
\"Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South. Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: lowdensity infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Cropland Abandonment in Metropolitan Suburbs: A Case Study of Chengdu Directly Administered Zone, Tianfu New Area, Sichuan Province, China
Cropland abandonment (CA) has become a significant threat to agricultural sustainability, particularly in metropolitan suburbs where urban expansion and cropland preservation often conflict. This study examines the Chengdu Directly Administered Zone of the Tianfu New Area in Sichuan Province, China, as a case study, utilizing high-precision vector data from China’s 2019–2023 National Land Survey to identify abandoned croplands through land use change trajectory analysis. By integrating kernel density estimation, spatial autocorrelation analysis, and geographically weighted regression modeling, we quantitatively analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of CA and the spatial heterogeneity of driving factors in the study area. The results demonstrate an average annual abandonment rate of approximately 8%, exhibiting minor fluctuations but significant spatial clustering characteristics, with abandonment hotspots concentrated in peri-urban areas that gradually expanded toward urban cores over time, while exurban regions showed lower abandonment rates. Cropland quality and the aggregation index were identified as key restraining factors, whereas increasing slope and land development intensity were found to elevate abandonment risks. Notably, distance to roads displayed a negative effect, contrary to conventional understanding, revealing that policy feedback mechanisms induced by anticipated land expropriation along transportation corridors serve as important drivers of suburban abandonment. This study provides a scientific basis for optimizing resilient urban–rural land allocation, curbing speculative abandonment, and exploring integrated “agriculture + ecology + cultural tourism” utilization models for abandoned lands. The findings offer valuable insights for balancing food security and sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions worldwide, particularly providing empirical references for developing countries addressing the dilemma between urban expansion and cropland preservation.
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The Coordinative Evaluation of Suburban Construction Land from Spatial, Socio-Economic, and Ecological Dimensions: A Case Study of Suburban Wuhan, Central China
As a zone lying adjacent to urban areas, construction land development in suburbs includes urban expansion caused by urbanization and rural construction land increments caused by rural development. Given the necessity of satisfying urban and rural development demands while protecting the ecological environment, goals of land use efficiency, socio-economic coordination, and ecological benefit need to be ensured simultaneously, which indicates that the coordinative development of suburban construction land is of great significance, thereby raising the need for a reasonable evaluation for the coordinative level from multiple dimensions. However, the evaluation of suburban construction land coordination considering spatial, socio-economic, and ecological factors is insufficiently studied. To fill the research gap, this study comprehensively evaluates the coordination of suburban construction land at the town level. Specifically, four indicators from spatial, socio-economic, and ecological dimensions, including landscape pattern, accessibility, socio-economic symbiosis, and ecological functional suitability, are selected. By utilizing coupling coordination degree estimation, the coordination among the four selected indicators is evaluated. By adopting a case study of suburban Wuhan, different coordinative levels regarding suburban construction land development are identified and respondent suggestions to promote the coordination of suburban construction land under current China’s land use policies are provided. This study contributes to understanding the coordinative development of suburban construction land and proposing a method to estimate the coordination.
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Old Europe, new suburbanization? : governance, land, and infrastructure in European suburbanization
The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn’t applicable to the wider world.
Old Europe, New Suburbanization? takes us on a journey of rediscovery into some of Europe’s oldest metropolises. The volume’s contributors reveal the great variety of patterns and processes of urbanization that make Europe a fruitful ground for furthering the diversity of global suburbanisms. The effects of urban history found in such cities as Athens, London, Madrid, Montpellier, and Sofia, varies greatly due to the sheer variety of economic, industrial, land, and expansionist policies at play on the continent. This collection highlights the varied historical and geographical manifestations that have shaped urban areas and provides evidence for new processes of suburbanization.
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From crisis to projects; a regional agenda for addressing foreclosures in shrinking first suburbs: Lessons from Warren, Michigan
Global urban development is currently characterized by varied combination of metropolitan growth and urban core shrinkage. Although much of the shrinkage is concentrated in central cities, first suburbs are now facing the same problem. In this article, Warren, the oldest first suburb of Detroit, is examined as a case study of a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment and real-estate foreclosures. Within this context of foreclosure crisis, the research questions are as follows: How existing agencies and institutions (such as local governments, community organizations, business groups and schools) might work at the neighborhood, city or regional level to address foreclosures? How it might help or reduce foreclosures? How can we reuse and revitalize foreclosed properties and abandoned lands? And what specific lessons can be learned that might be applicable in other cities? These questions are specifically explored through documentation and analysis of existing resources and current efforts in Warren. The empirical methodology reveals Warren's attempt to develop planning strategies, culturally based initiatives, community design projects and creative partnerships in the region in order to address challenges of shrinkage and foreclosures at multiple scales. The Warren case study illustrates opportunities for flexible policies combining rightsizing, shared maintenance and incremental development in struggling first suburban communities, which are less studied and often ignored.
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The World the Mineowners Made: Social Themes in the Economic Transformation of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914 with Comments and Discussion
Between 1886 & 1913, South African gold production rose from 0.16% to 40% of the world's output. This was accompanied by the incorporation of South Africa into the world economic order. The LF consisted essentially of migrant workers. The black sector of the economy served as washermen, domestic servants, rickshaw pullers, cab drivers, transport drivers, brick makers, pimps, prostitutes, & liquor sellers, as occupations outside the mines. Unemployment led to relief & work programs for Afrikaners & to criminal activity for blacks. After 1902, sellers of sex & alcohol & criminals came under heavy public attack; the small business sector, both white & black, was largely wiped out. This led to proletarianization of the Afrikaners, which made them still more fearful of black competition. In Comments, Frederi Johnstone (Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's) notes connections between the abstract concept of incorporation & the concrete experience of black & white workers. In Comments Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri (UN Instit for Namibia) finds a need to offer more detail on the LFs' backgrounds. In Discussion, comments are offered by Bill Minter, van Onselen, Johnstone, Julia Wells, Matsepe-Casaburri, Ian Phimister, Giovanni Arrighi, & Stanley Greenberg. W. H. Stoddard.
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