Author : Douglas Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986538759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Book Synopsis In-between Infrastructure by : Douglas Young
Download or read book In-between Infrastructure written by Douglas Young and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Canada's contemporary urbanization. Between the "glamour zones" of the "creative" inner (global) city economies on one end and the sprawling new regional economies on the other, we now have a new set of sociospatial arrangements that characterize the current period of urban expansion more than others. We call these in-between cities. These spaces now appear as the most dynamic and problematic forms of (sub)urbanization. They comprise the old post-World War II suburbs in particular but also the transitional zones between those suburbs and the exurban fringe. These remnant spaces of 20th century urbanization assemble a wild and often unexplainable mix of uses untypical for either the inner city or the classical suburb, they present landscapes of extreme spatial and social segregation. The book presents a focus on infrastructures in the in-between city and features original chapters by some of Canada's leading urban thinkers as well as new voices in the debate. -- Résumé de l'éditeur