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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: low-density 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.

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While this book contributes to the nascent field of suburban studies, it does so from an explicit infrastructural perspective. Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures is a timely contribution. I am really impressed by the quality of the individual contributions but, most of all, by the editors' success at presenting them in a coherent manner and engaging them in an integrated argument. - Vanesa Castan Broto, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

This collection makes a significant and much-needed contribution to continuing debates on infrastructure and metropolitan dynamics. - Nik Luka, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and School of Urban Planning, McGill University Using cutting-edge scholarship and institutional, social, and environmental analyses, Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures reveals the complex and varied interactions between infrastructure, urban development, and suburban lifestyles. - Theresa Enright, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto While this book contributes to the nascent field of suburban studies, it does so from an explicit infrastructural perspective. Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures is a timely contribution. I am really impressed by the quality of the individual contributions but, most of all, by the editors' success at presenting them in a coherent manner and engaging them in an integrated argument. - Vanesa Castan Broto, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

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Pierre Filion is Professor at the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. Nina M.Pulver is a PhD candidate in Planning at the University of Waterloo.

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