What's in a Name?

Talking about Urban Peripheries
Herausgeber: Harris, Richard; Vorms, Charles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘p¿urbain’, 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 de 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781442626966
• ISBN-10: 1442626968
• Artikelnr.: 47593641

Autorenporträt

Edited by Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface, and acknowledgements
1. Introduction - Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms
2. The Naming Process - Christian Topalov
3. ‘Suburb’ is not a rude word in Australia’. A lexical history of
Australian suburbs - Graeme Davison
4. Doubts about ‘suburbs’ in Canada - Amy Shanks, V. Coates and R. Harris
5. Defining peripheral places in Quebec. A review of key planning reports
and media (1960-2012) - Claire Poitras
6. Bombay’s Urban Edge: Villages, Suburbs, Slums, and the expanding city -
N. Rao
7. Kampungs, Buitenwijken and Kota Mandiri. Naming the urban fringe on
Java, Indonesia - Freek Colombijn and Abidin Kusno
8. From favela to communidade, and beyond. The taming of Rio de Janeiro -
Rafael S. Gonçalves and Francesca Pilo'
9. Naming Rome’s Edge. Cultural and Political Representations of the
Borgata - Francesco Bartolini
10. Naming Madrid’s working-class periphery, 1860-1970. The construction of
urban illegitimacy - Charlotte Vorms
11. To name or not to name. Contradictions in naming processes of one
Bucharest district - Ioana Florea
12. Some reflections on comparing (post-)suburbs in U.S. and France - R. Le
Goix
13. Périurbain, from woes to words. Political and social uses of a new
administrative category - Anne Lambert
14. The new neighbourhoods. The discursive (and other) transformation of
South Sofia’s modest beginnings - Sonia Hirt
15. Lost in Translation: Names, Meanings, and Development Strategies of
Beijing’s Periphery - Xuefei Ren
16. Concluding suggestions - Richard Harris
Contributors