Table of Contents
Foreword Thomas J. Sugrue vii
Introduction. Wiry Transnationalize Urban History? A. K. Sandoval-Strausz Nancy H. Kwak 1
Part I Globalization and Governance
Chapter 1 Silicon Dreams: States, Markets, and the Transnational High-Tech Suburb Margaret O'Mara 17
Chapter 2 Homeownership and Social Welfare in the Americas: Ciudad Kennedy as a Midcentury Crossroads Amy C. Offner 47
Chapter 3 Building the Alliance for Progress: Local and Transnational Encounters in a Low-Income Housing Program in Rio de Janeiro, 1962-67 Leandro Benmergui 71
Chapter 4 Slum Clearance as a Transnational Process in Globalizing Manila Nancy H. Kwak 98
Chapter 5 Crossing Boundaries: The Global Exchange of Planning Ideas Carola Hein 114
Part II Place, Culture, and Power
Chapter 6 Condos in the Mall: Suburban Transnational Typological Transformations in Markham, Ontario Erica Allen-Kim 133
Chapter 7 Requiem for a Barrio: Race, Space, and Gentrification in Southern California Matt Garcia 166
Chapter 8 Transnational Performances in Chicago's Independence Day Parade Arijit Sen 191
Chapter 9 Transnational Urban Meanings: The Passage of "Suburb" to India and Its Rough Reception Richard Harris 223
Chapter 10 Suburbanization and Urban Practice in India Nikhil Rao 241
Chapter 11 Will the Transnational City Be Digitized? The Dialectics of Diversified Spatial Media and Expanded Spatial Scopes Carl H. Nightingale 252
Notes 265
List of Contributors 321
Index 325
Acknowledgments 339