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Book Review: Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building

the world, a suburban dichotomy arises with the insertion of suburban poverty in an otherwise prosperous periphery. In other parts of the world, the opposite happens as more affluent populations migrate to the much poorer outskirts. Either way, what the chapters in these books highlight is the splintered nature of global suburbanization. To conclude, I highly recommend these books to scholars and students seeking to understand more about processes of suburbanization in a global context. Deeper still, reading these books on global suburban transformations leads to a more nuanced understanding of the urban, and helps decipher motives for the emergence of landscapes of sociospatial differentiation in different parts of the world. There are many excellent and insightful chapters I did not refer to in this review (e.g., the discussion around the relationships between immigrant identity and the banlieues in Paris, the evolution of suburbs in Johannesburg, and governance issues in new suburbs in Africa). There is much more to explore, and I would advise anyone interested in understanding suburban processes in a global context to read these books.