Book Launch & Panel Discussion of “In the Suburbs of History: Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery” by Steven Logan

On the occasion of the publication of Steven Logan’sIn the Suburbs of History, this book launch brought Logan in conversation withThe Globe and Mailarchitecture critic Alex Bozikovic andRadical Suburbsauthor Amanda Kolson Hurley. Professor Roger Keil, editor of the Global Suburbanisms book series moderated the event.

In the Suburbs of Historychallenges the divisions between East and West and in doing so reassembles the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery of cities in the 20th century. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. Examining socialist utopias and capitalist visions of the edge city, Logan shows that the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that sought out collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces.

Steven Loganis adjunct faculty and 2021/2022 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Communication, Culture, and Information Technology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.

The event was hosted byCity Institute at York Universityand co-presented byGlobal Suburbanisms andUniversity of Toronto Press.