Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs

by Valerie Preston, Shuguang Wang, Pui-Chun Lucia Lo, et al.

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates the invisible geography of vulnerability in the region.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442628324
• ISBN13: 9781442628328
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"