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.
