Introduction: Governance in a Suburban World (Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil)
Section 1: Suburban Governance
1. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance (Michael Ekers, Pierre Hamel, and Roger Keil)
2. A Note on Governance: More Intervening Variables, Please (Robert Young)
Section 2: Suburban Governance in the Classical Anglo-Saxon Cases
3. The United States: Suburban Imaginaries and Metropolitan Realities (Jan Nijman and Tom Clery)
4. Modalities of Suburban Governance in Canada (Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Elena Chou, and Kieran Williams)
5. Governing Suburban Australia (Louise C. Johnson)
6. Chicago-School Suburbanism (Jamie Peck)
Section 3: The Existing Alternatives
7. Suburban Governance in Western Europe (Nicholas A. Phelps and Amparo Tarazona Vento)
8. Suburbia in Three Acts: The East European Story (Sonia Hirt and Atanas Kovachev)
9. Governing Shrinkage of Large Housing Estates at the Fringe (Sigrun Kabisch and Dieter Rink)
10. Suburbanization in Latin America: Towards New Authoritarian Modes of Governance at the Urban Margin (Dirk Heinrichs and Henning Nuissl)
11. On the Relations of Culture and Suburbia: How to Give Meaning to the Suburban Landscape? (Thomas Sieverts)
Section 4: The Emerging Models
12. Africa’s New Suburbs (Robin Bloch)
13. Shifting Terrain: Questions of Governance in India’s Cities and Their Peripheries (Shubhra Gururani and Burak Kose)
14. Suburban Development and Governance in China (Fulong Wu and Jie Shen)
15. Deconstructing the Decentralized Urban Spaces of the Mega-Urban Regions in the Global South (Terry McGee)
16. Governing the Postcolonial Suburbs (Ananya Roy)
Conclusion: Suburban Governance: Convergent and Divergent Dynamics (Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel)
