Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel

Keywords： Suburbanization; Suburbanism; Governance; Global Suburbs

Abstract：

A large literature explicitly investigates how urban regions are governed. Immigration policies, housing, infrastructure, transportation and development processes contribute to the process of governance. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of suburban governance; specifically the constellation of public and private processes, actors and institutions that determine and shape the planning, design, politics and economics of suburban spaces and everyday behaviour. At the same time, any survey of the existing literature would reveal that it is exceedingly difficult to pin down exactly what suburban governance means and how it is practiced. The array of descriptors across different geographical and linguistic areas makes the task of ascertaining similar and different modes of suburban governance difficult yet still a necessary project. Given the worldwide spread of the phenomenon of peripheral urbanization, this task has to be taken on at the scale of global comparative research. Thus, our aim in this article is to develop a framework, and argument that accounts for the universalization of suburbanization, while maintaining a focus on the particular manifestations of this global process. It is true that different descriptors of suburban life signify particular forms of decentralized urban space. Yet behind all of these forms of suburbs are the processes of urbanization and suburbanization that signify our move towards a completely urbanized global society.

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