Post-suburban Europe

by Nicholas A. Phelps

"'Post-suburbia' is a term that encapsulates a verity of contemporary urban forms, in particular the 'edge city' - a term use to describe the rapid growth of new urban centres at the edges of established major cities. Widely discussed in the US, very little has been written about European edge cities and this book seeks to redress this imbalance, offering a comparative analysis that is located within the context of current East Asian and North American research, providing one of the first major works on the subject." "Examining the urban development and politics of five self-styled...

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