Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks--Americans by the…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Les photographies rassemblées ici, ont été réalisées entre 2008 et 2009 à Strasbourg, plus précisément dans ses périphéries. Elles…
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The rapid growth of suburban communities has been a prominent feature of social change in Japan since the 1920s. In western Tokyo alone the suburban population, which at that time numbered fewer than three hundred…
Depuis quelques années, le suburbain acquiert une position de plus en plus importante dans le débat urbanistique et architectural. D’une part, les théories formulées à son sujet ont connu de conséquentes évolutions : majoritairement perçu comme peu…
Abstract from the publisher : Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the…
Contents :
Karina Landman - The storm that rocks the boat: the systemic impact of gated communities on urban sustainability
Jörg Plöger - The emergence of a “City of Cages” in Lima : neighbourhood appropriation in the context…
The proceedings of a 2002 conference held at the Centre of comparative European history, Berlin, on the topic 'The European metropolis 1920 - 2000'.
Contents :
Linking scales and urban network development - R. Wall and G.A. van der Knapp
New Forms…
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Smagacz uses a comparative approach to look at two very different but related processes: what she calls the “revitalization” of two formerly peripheral and now prosper-
ous, innovative and trendy urban…
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By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way…