El. knyga: Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe's Capital Cities

List of Figures		viii
List of Table		ix
Preface		x
Acknowledgements		xii
Introduction		1	(15)
Californication?		1	(5)
Post-suburbia: A brief history of forms		6	(3)
Centre, edge, hinterland		9	(2)
Placing post-suburbia		11	(1)
Structure of the book		12	(4)
Closer to the Edge: Function and Form in Post-Suburban Europe		16	(26)
Introduction		16	(1)
Functionally dynamic or administratively created post-suburbia?		17	(6)
Alternate agents: The producers of post-suburbia		23	(6)
Fungible functions: The dynamism of post-suburban Europe - economic, social and political		29	(3)
Friable forms: Post-suburbia's internal coherence and enlarged spaces of engagement		32	(8)
Conclusion		40	(2)
In Search of a European Post-Suburban Identity		42	(26)
Introduction		42	(1)
Trans-European local authority networking		43	(6)
The European edge cities network		49	(3)
Towards a European post-suburban identity		52	(5)
Benefits of networking		57	(2)
Barriers to collaboration and the transfer of knowledge		59	(5)
Balance of co-operation and competition		64	(2)
Conclusion		66	(2)
Kifissia: Playground of the Athenians?		68	(27)
Introduction		68	(3)
`Thinking Greek': A philosophy of urban development in Greece from the Republic to Metapolis		71	(9)
Kifissia: Playground of the Athenians		80	(7)
Post-suburban growing pains: Conservation versus growth		87	(3)
The subterranean politics of growth in Kifissia		90	(3)
Conclusion		93	(2)
Getafe: Capital of the Gran Sur		95	(25)
Introduction		95	(2)
The cities of the plains: El reino de taifas		97	(7)
Getafe and the `Gran Sur': Political mobilisation within the metropolitan space		104	(2)
The making of the `capital of the south'		106	(9)
Party politics, personality and the politics of place-making		115	(4)
Conclusion		119	(1)
Noisy-le-Grand: Grand State Vision or Noise about Nowhere?		120	(26)
Introduction		120	(2)
Maps of no meaning: Noisy-le-Grand -- A State-created nowhere?		122	(7)
A nowhere in search of an identity		129	(9)
Embedding business: From space to place?		138	(6)
Conclusion		144	(2)
Espoo: California Dreaming?		146	(26)
Introduction		146	(2)
Urbanisation and polarisation in the Nordic welfare system		148	(4)
Gardens of dystopia? The planning of Espoo		152	(11)
A Finnish growth machine?		163	(5)
Back to the future? The city without a centre		168	(2)
Conclusion		170	(2)
The Croydonisation of South London?		172	(25)
Introduction		172	(1)
Contrary Croydon		173	(4)
Croydon's urban regime		177	(6)
The Croydonisation of South London		183	(7)
Business at the margins?		190	(6)
Conclusion		196	(1)
Post-Suburban Futures		197	(11)
Introduction: The city as collective actor?		197	(2)
Collective action and the making of post-suburbia		199	(3)
Post-suburban prospects		202	(4)
Closer to the edge: Future directions for research		206	(2)
Appendix 1 Interview Sources		208	(3)
Notes		211	(3)
References		214	(13)
Index		227

NICHOLAS A. PHELPS is a Reader in Economic Geography at the University of Southampton, UK, with interests in urban and regional economics and planning. He is author of Multinationals and European Integration (1996), and is co-editor of FDI and the Global Economy (1999) and The New Competition for Inward Investment (2003).

NICK PARSONS is a Senior Lecturer in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Employee Participation in Europe (1997) and co-editor of Reinventing France: State and Society in the Twenty First Century (2003).

DIMITRIS BALLAS is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests focus on economic geography and microsimulation and he has published articles in the journals Environment & Planning C, Population, Place and Space and Geographical Analysis.

ANDREW DOWLING is a Lecturer in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University, UK, and has published articles in the International Journal of Iberian Studies, Journal of Catalan Studies and Regional and Federal Studies.