1. The drive for upward social mobility : The antisurburban crusade / Robert Bruegmann

The divided metropolis: the suburb and the explosion of global urbanization / Robert Fishman

Suburbia as a class issue / Joel Kotkin

Millennials' hearts are in the suburbs / Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais

Suburban holy land / D.J. Waldie

Mexico's suburban dream / Guénola Capron and Martha de Alba

Australia's misplaced war on the suburban dream / Ross Elliott

How Britain's greenbelts choke suburbs and force up prices / James Heartfield

The myth of homogeneous suburbia / Jon C. Teaford

Reexamining race and ethnicity in the suburbs / Ali Modarres

The Grorud Valley: borderline suburbia / Espen Aukrust Hauglin and Janike Kampevold Larsen

2. Polycentric metropolitan form : Engaging with the planet's urban expansion / Shlomo Angel and Alejandro M. Blei, with Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza Sanchez, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Jason Parent, and Kevin Thom

Sprawl of the century: contemporary Chinese suburbia / Thomas J. Campanella

Measuring urban cores and suburbs in the United States / Wendell Cox

The continued suburbanization of America / Jed Kolko

Transport defines suburbia / David L.A. Gordon

Interburbia: ground truthing US metropolitan urbanization / Kenneth P. Labertreaux, Casey Lance Brown, and Alan M. Berger

Driving while suburban / Alan E. Pisarski

Megaregional Australia in the twenty-first century / Richard Weller and Julian Bolleter

Health, transportation, and the community-built environment / Michael Brauer

Health advantages in suburbs / Bridget Catlin

3. Metropolitan economic interrelationships : Trading places among cities and suburbs / William T. Bogart

Suburbs in the metropolitan economy / Nicholas A. Phelps

Why should suburbs care about cities? / Michael Hollar

Six types of high-technology districts / Ann Forsyth

Creative suburbia: cultural innovation in outer suburban Australia / Mark Gibson, Terry Flew, Christy Collis, and Emma Felton

The global suburb: divesting from the world's white picket fences / Roger Keil

Spain's speculative urbanization / Christopher Marcinkoski

Navi Mumbai: from New Town to suburbia / Rahul Mehrotra and Kanika Arora Sharma

Postsuburban Johannesburg / Martin J. Murray

Subtracting the suburbs / Keller Easterling

4. Harnessing ecological potential : Rediscovering the nature of suburbs / Christopher Sellers

The cosmopolitan ecology of suburbia / Sarah Jack Hinners

Metabolic suburbs, or the virtue of low densities / Susannah Hagan

Suburban wetlandia / Celina Balderas Guzmán

Designing backward for suburbia / Margaret Grose

Greening sprawl: lawn culture and carbon storage in the suburban landscape / Joan Iverson Nassauer

Belting future suburbia / Alan M. Berger

The horizontal metropolis / Paola Viganò

Sprawl is dead! Long live the low-density city / Alex Wall

Willow Pond: technologies for a future suburban form / Bruce Tonn and Dorian Stiefel

The power of suburbia / Hugh Byrd

5. Scales of governance : Between power and appearance: the enterprise suburbs of Silicon Valley / Louise A. Mozingo

Coding permanent flexibility / Fadi Masoud

Cities, suburbs, and the challenge of metropolitan governance / Richard Briffault

Suburban government and the virtues of local control / Howard Husock

Old suburbs meet new urbanism / Nicole Stelle Garnett

Beyond suburbia? Urban transitions across the global south / Adriana Allen

Brazilian suburbs: marginality, informality, and exclusivity / Martin Coy, Simone Sandholz, Tobias Töpfer, and Frank Zirkl

Dachascapes and dystopias / Robert J. Mason and Liliya Nigmatullina

Turbo-suburbanism in Luanda / Anne Pitcher and Sylvia Croese

The dark side of suburbia: Israeli settlements of the West Bank / Rafi Segal.