Post-Suburban Europe Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe's Capital Cities

This book provides a comparative analysis of edge cities in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland and the UK, offering a theoretical analysis of the edge city and of post-suburban Europe.

NICHOLAS A. PHELPS is a Reader in Economic Geography at the University of Southampton, UK, with interests in urban and regional economics and planning. He is author of Multinationals and European Integration (1996), and is co-editor of FDI and the Global Economy (1999) and The New Competition for Inward Investment (2003).

NICK PARSONS is a Senior Lecturer in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Employee Participation in Europe (1997) and co-editor of Reinventing France: State and Society in the Twenty First Century (2003).

DIMITRIS BALLAS is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests focus on economic geography and microsimulation and he has published articles in the journals Environment & Planning C, Population, Place and Space and Geographical Analysis.

ANDREW DOWLING is a Lecturer in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University, UK, and has published articles in the International Journal of Iberian Studies, Journal of Catalan Studies and Regional and Federal Studies.