Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Groβwohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb."
K. Murat Güney is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Acıbadem University in İstanbul.
Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.
Murat Üçoğlu is a PhD candidate and course director in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.