What's in a name? (2017)
What's in a name? : talking about urban peripheries / edited by Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms.
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
©2017
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Global suburbanisms
"'Borgata', 'favela', 'périurbain', and 'suburb' are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres. In What's in a Name - editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery. Rather than view these distinct communities through the lens of the western notion of urban sprawl, the contributors focus on the variety of everyday terms that are used, together with their connotations. This volume explores the local terminology used in cities such as Beijing, Bucharest, Montreal, Mumbai, Rio di Janeiro, Rome, Sofia, as well as more broadly across North America, Australia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. What's in a Name is the first book in English to pay serious and sustained attention to the naming of the urban periphery worldwide. By exploring the ways in which local individuals speak about the urban periphery Harris and Vorms bridge the assumed divide between the global North and the global South."-- Provided by publisher.
9781442649606 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
1442649607 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9781442626966 (paper ; acid-free paper)
1442626968 (paper)
Suburbs Developing countries.
Suburbs Developed countries.
Names, Geographical.
Banlieues Pays en voie de développement.
Banlieues Pays industrialisés.
Noms géographiques.
Suburbs.
Stadtumland
Stadtrand
Vorort
Vorstadt
Peripherie
Developed countries.
Developing countries.
Harris, Richard, 1952- editor.
Vorms, Charlotte, editor.
Global suburbanisms.
What is in a name
Location: Library main 295698
Call No.: BIB 242058
Status: Available
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