'This book provides a wealth of novel insights into aprocess that has received very little systematic attention in amongresearchers and policy-makers alike: the vast process of urbandispersal unfolding throughout European countries situated east ofthe former Iron Curtain. Moving seamlessly across a wide range ofgeographical contexts - from the urbanization of thecountryside seen around Ljubljana to Moscow's regionalsuburbanization model - the authors demonstrate an acuteability to detect the local nuances and generic trends thatcharacterize such dynamics. This edited collection can thus serveas both a foundational text for scholars as well as a guidancedocument for practitioners and decision-makers.' Stefan Bouzarovski, Professor of Geography and Director of theCentre for Urban Resilience and Energy, University ofManchester 'Confronting Suburbanization sheds a bright lighton the processes of contemporary metropolitan growth in afascinating region with a long and rich urban history, andcommunist legacies which formed a springboard for unprecedentedpost-socialist dynamics. In this volume, a set of renownedinternational authors with close local knowledge try to untanglethe complexities resulting from both external and internal forces -political reform, economic liberalization, social and demographiccontext - as they manifest themselves in terms of metropolitandevelopment. The authors offer numerous insights, and clearly notethat there is much both East and West can learn from this dynamicenvironment where intensified societal and physical transformationis happening before oureyes.' Zorica Nedovic-Budic, Professor Chair of Spatial Planning, University College Dublin