Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City

__Urbanizing Suburbia__ considers three current and related processes underway in global cities: the hyper-gentrification of inner cities, the financialization of housing, and the structural changes occurring in the outer city. Rocketing housing prices have displaced residents from inner cities and created a rent gap in outer cities. Increasingly, municipalities, developers, and displaced residents search for opportunities in the suburban belts. Changes in demographics, densities, live/work ratios, and tenures are remaking outer cities, rendering them less and less __suburban__. The book examines these changes by looking at four key European cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Stockholm. It is a first attempt at understanding the three processes discussed here within one comprehensive explanatory framework. Contents CONDITIONS AND PROCESSES Suburbia Transfigured On the Edge: Suburbia, Disturbia, Futurbia Fifth-Wave Gentrification and the Financialization of Housing I. AMSTERDAM eds. “Creative” Regeneration and the Dissipation of Amsterdam’s Suburbs The View from the City: Amsterdam Noord, Self-Build, and Broedplaats The View from the City: Vision 2050 and the Nieuw-West Rolling Out the Center: The Temporary Use of Tolhuistuin in Longer-Term Urban Development in Amsterdam Noord II. BERLIN Culture in the Trenches: Housing and Resistance in Berlin Hufeisensiedlung as Financialized World Heritage Theorizing Gentrification from Berlin The Question Is No Longer Whether to Expropriate, but Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet Playing Our Match to Win Battles All Over the World III. LONDON The Transformation of London’s Outer City Housing and Social Change in Outer London From Inclusive Legacy Promises to Exclusive Realities: Planning, Design, and Displacement in Post-Olympic East London The Normalization of Thamesmead: Part A IV. STOCKHOLM Welcome to New Stockholm: Soft Tactics and Hard Change in the Outer City Postage-Stamp Planning Neon Lights SIFAV South of the South in Venice of the North: Theorizing Change in Hökarängen MAPPINGS Integrating Amsterdam Noord Cultural Assets in Schöneweide The Normalization of Thamesmead: Part B South of the South in Venice of the North: Mapping Change in Hökarängen Other Narratives: Reading Sub/Urban Theory Differently Contributing Authors Acknowledgements