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Constructing Suburbs
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Author : Ann Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-09-29
Constructing Suburbs written by Ann Forsyth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-29 with Architecture categories.
Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, economic, and institutional power applied by the parties in the project, with emphasis on the processes of infrastructure privatization and ecological impacts. The conclusion reflects on contemporary dilemmas about pluralism.
Constructing Suburbs
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Author : Ann Forsyth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Constructing Suburbs written by Ann Forsyth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Electronic books categories.
Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, economic, and institutional power applied by the parties in the project, with emphasis on the processes of infrastructure privatization and ecological impacts. The conclusion reflects on contemporary dilemmas about pluralism.
Constructing Suburbs
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Author : Ann Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-09-29
Constructing Suburbs written by Ann Forsyth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-29 with Architecture categories.
1. Big projects in a time of uncertainty : facing the future in a contemporary urban development -- 2. Five images of a suburb : competing perspectives on the economy, environment, and family life -- 3. Visual rhetorics in growth debates : Sydney's future as a Los Angeles, Toronto, or Canberra -- 4. Formal planning process : the privileged language of professional planning -- 5. Hard and soft privitization : unequal impacts of government withdrawal -- 6. Urban development and the power of ideas.
Massive Suburbanization
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Author : K. Murat Güney
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Massive Suburbanization written by K. Murat Güney and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of space. Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Gro?wohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb."
Suburban Dreams
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Author : Greg Dickinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2015-06-15
Suburban Dreams written by Greg Dickinson and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the "good life"
Suburban Planet
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Author : Roger Keil
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Suburban Planet written by Roger Keil and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Social Science categories.
The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about the process that creates the global urban periphery – suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we encounter there. Richly detailed with examples from around the world, the book argues that suburbanization is a global process and part of the extended urbanization of the planet. This includes the gated communities of elites, the squatter settlements of the poor, and many built forms and ways of life in-between. The reality of life in the urban century is suburban: most of the earth's future 10 billion inhabitants will not live in conventional cities but in suburban constellations of one kind or another. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's demand not to give up urban theory when the city in its classical form disappears, this book is a challenge to urban thought more generally as it invites the reader to reconsider the city from the outside in.
Manufacturing Suburbs
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Author : Robert Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2008
Manufacturing Suburbs written by Robert Lewis and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, "Manufacturing Suburbs" reclaims the history of working-class suburbs by examining the development of industrial suburbs in the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1950. Contributors demonstrate that these suburbs developed in large part because of the location of manufacturing beyond city limits and the subsequent building of housing for the workers who labored within those factories. Through case studies of industrial suburbanization and industrial suburbs in several metropolitan areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Montreal), "Manufacturing Suburbs" sheds light on a key phenomenon of metropolitan development before the Second World War.
Designing Suburban Futures
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Author : June Williamson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Designing Suburban Futures written by June Williamson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
"Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for revitalizing Long Island, she offers valuable models not only for U.S. suburbs, but also those emerging elsewhere with global urbanization. Williamson argues that suburbia has historically been a site of great experimentation and is currently primed for exciting changes. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson shows how to expand this trend, highlighting promising design strategies and tactics. She provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful "Build a Better Burb" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. Designing Suburban Futures offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant, new suburban form. It will be especially useful for urban designers, architects, landscape architects, land use planners, local policymakers and NGOs, citizen activists, students of urban design, planning, architecture, and landscape architecture."--Publisher's website.
Building Suburbia
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Author : Dolores Hayden
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-11-04
Building Suburbia written by Dolores Hayden and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-04 with Architecture categories.
A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live. From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the decisions that have generated America’s diverse suburbs. Residents have sought home, nature, and community in suburbia. Developers have cherished different dreams, seeking profit from economies of scale and increased suburban densities, while lobbying local and federal government to reduce the risk of real estate speculation. Encompassing environmental controversies as well as the complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden’s fascinating account will forever alter how we think about the communities we build and inhabit.
Reforming Suburbia
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Author : Ann Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-03-14
Reforming Suburbia written by Ann Forsyth and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-14 with Architecture categories.
The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Columbia in Maryland, and The Woodlands in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. Based on new research and interviews with developers, designers, and residents, Ann Forsyth traces the evolution, the successes, and the shortcomings of these experiments in urban innovation. Where they succeeded, in areas such as community identity and open space preservation, they provide support for current "smart growth" proposals. Where they did not, in areas such as housing affordability and transportation choices, they offer important insights for today's planners, designers, developers, civic leaders, and others interested in incorporating new forms of development into their designs.