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Post-Suburban Europe

Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe's Capital Cities

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 1-15
  3. Closer to the Edge: Function and Form in Post-Suburban Europe

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 16-41
  4. In Search of a European Post-Suburban Identity

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 42-67
  5. Kifissia: Playground of the Athenians?

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 68-94
  6. Getafe: Capital of the Gran Sur

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 95-119
  7. Noisy-le-Grand: Grand State Vision or Noise about Nowhere?

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 120-145
  8. Espoo: California Dreaming?

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 146-171
  9. The Croydonisation of South London?

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 172-196
  10. Post-Suburban Futures

    • Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling
    Pages 197-207
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 208-233

About this book

The term 'edge city' describes the rapid growth of urban centres at the edge of established cities. Widely discussed in the US, very little has been written about European edge cities. This book gives a comparative analysis of examples in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland and the UK, with a theoretical analysis of edge cities and post-suburban Europe.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Southampton, UK

    Nicholas A. Phelps

  • Cardiff School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK

    Nick Parsons, Andrew Dowling

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Dimitris Ballas

About the authors

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.

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