Cities, suburbs and metropolitan areas – governing the regionalised city
Suburbanization in Global Society
ISBN: 978-0-85724-347-8, eISBN: 978-0-85724-348-5
Publication date: 31 December 2010
Abstract
Since the 1950s, and the steadily growing mobility of people and production (economic activity) as a result of the shift to road traffic, especially in North America, suburban areas have grown rapidly as residential areas and places of (post-industrial) economic activity (Hoffmann-Axthelm, 1998). People moved from ‘the country’ and, especially, the established central cities to the more spacious and cheap to develop peripheral locations. In Europe, differences have emerged on the basis of established planning law and thus availability of land for development, and of historic legacies in the relationship between ‘city’ and ‘country’. Thus, for instance, while in Germany cities were distinctly separate from their surrounding areas in legal terms and land ownership, in Italy, cities have been viewed as ‘owning’ or controlling the surrounding areas to the extent that these are subservient to the cities’ developmental needs (Heitkamp, 1998).
Citation
Herrschel, T. (2010), "Cities, suburbs and metropolitan areas – governing the regionalised city", Clapson, M. and Hutchison, R. (Ed.) Suburbanization in Global Society (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 107-130. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-0042(2010)0000010007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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