Concluding suggestions / Richard Harris. The naming process / Christian Topalov -- "Suburb is not a rude word in Australia": a lexical history / Graeme Davison -- Doubts about "suburbs" in Canada / Amy Shanks, Victoria Coates, and Richard Harris -- Defining peripheral places in Quebec: a review of key planning reports and the media, 1960-2012 / Claire Poitras -- Bombay's urban edge: villages, suburbs, slums, and the expanding city / Nikhil Rao -- Kampungs, Buitenwijken, and Kota Mandiri: naming the urban fringe on Java, Indonesia / Freek Colombijn and Abidin Kusno -- From Favela to Communidade and beyond: the taming of Rio de Janeiro / Frafael Soares GoncŒalves and Francesca Pilo' -- Naming Rome's edge: cultural and political representations of the Borgata / Naming Madrid's working-class periphery, 1860-1970: the construction of urban illegitimacy / Charlotte Vorms -- To name or not to name: contradictions in naming processes of one Bucharest district / Ioana Florea -- Some reflections on comparing (post-)suburbs in the United States and France / Renaud le Goix -- Periurbain, from woes to words: political and social uses of a new administrative category / Anne Lambert -- The new neighbourhoods: the discursive (and other) transformation of South Sofia's modest beginnings / Sonia Hirt -- Lost in translation: names, meanings, and development strategies of Beijing's periphery / Xuefei Ren -- Concluding suggestions / Richard Harris.
Summary:
"'Borgata', 'favela', 'periurbain', 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 di 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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