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Lost in the Suburbs: A Political Travelogue

Stephen Dale

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Tour de force 5 out of 5 stars.
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Tracing Ontario's political sea change to its philosophical roots in New Jersey and California, Dale makes an interesting case for a suburb-driven body politic. He backs this argument up by consulting positively everyone involved in the process of suburbanization: real estate agents, urban scholars, politicians, historians, and urban and suburban residents.

This would be a fascinating book even if I didn't live in Ontario. Highly recommended to anyone interested in urban studies or contemporary politics.

The Mall: An Attempted Escape from Everyday Life

Jerry Jacobs

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The Malling of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer Paradise

William Severini Kowinski

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The New Suburban Woman

Nancy Rubin Stuart

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New Suburbanities: Race and Housing in the Suburbs

Robert W. Lake

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Nobody's Home: Dreams and Realities in a New Suburb

Lyn Richards

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The dream of suburban home ownership continues to appeal to many men and women. Yet the realities of this dream often translate into a house where "nobody's home" because everyone must work to pay off the high costs of ownership. Nobody's Home studies the dream and its social results. Based on five years observing one Australian suburb, it probes the myth of equality and home ownership, and explores the acceptance of migrants to the family community, the changing needs of families, and ideas of privacy and neighborliness. Arguing that the experience of community is divided by class, stage of family, and gender, the study examines the differences between women's and men's desire for neighbors, local friendships, and groups.

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

Nicholas A. Phelps, Nick Parsons, Dimitris Ballas, Andrew Dowling

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Post-suburbia is a term that encapsulates a variety of contemporary urban forms, in particular the 'edge city' - a term used to describe the rapid growth of new urban centres at the edges of established major cities. Widely discussed in the US, very little has been written about European edge cities and this book provides a comparative analysis of examples in Greece, Spain, Paris, Finland and the UK, offering a theoretical analysis of the edge city and of post-suburban Europe.

Suburbia Re-Examined: (Contributions in Sociology)

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The changing nature and definition of suburbia, past and present, and the processes which have influenced its development both physically and as an intellectual construct are examined, from various perspectives, by the writers of the 26 essays that compose Suburbia Re-examined. These chapters were drawn from papers presented in June 1987 at a conference on suburbia sponsored by the Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra University. Escalated prices for single family homes have in effect closed the gates to suburbia for many of the young and the elderly. Diverse quality-of-life environmental problems, including water supply, have become matters of real concern to experts and suburban dwellers alike. Interestingly, as industry, commerce, and corporate headquarters continue to proliferate in what were once bedroom communities serving nearby cities, even the usefulness of the term "suburbia" for these varied communities has come into question. The revolutions in transportation and communication and their effects upon home and workplace, city and suburb, are among the issues explored in provocative essays by experts in the field who consider a broad spectrum of topics relative to the suburban experience including regional patterns of development, real estate and banking, public policy, transportation, the role of the federal government, the home, the family, the future, and more. Sam Bass Warner, Jr.'s introduction, "When Suburbs Are the City," furnishes an overview of perspectives relative to the study of suburbia as city and he urges urban professionals to focus on current conditions rather than on "solving old problems." In tracing the roots of urban research analysis to economics, art, and literary criticism, this noted urban historian finds these approaches to urban study limited and limiting. Warner proposes that students of suburbia use the house, and all the people and activities associated with it, as the basis for explorations and explanations of current social phenomena, and that the primary concern, the core of urban studies, should explicitly be concerned for family well-being in this setting. Urban historians, sociologists, planners, real estate and banking professionals, economists, architects, public policy administrators, informed generalists, and anyone with an interest in the continuing evolution of suburbia will find that Suburbia Re-examined provides the background necessary to an understanding of this challenging and ubiquitous subject.

Suburbia: An International Assessment

Donald N. Rothblatt, Daniel J. Garr

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Twentieth-Century Suburbs: A Morphological Approach (Planning, History, and the Environment Series, 1)

C.M.H Carr

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Twentieth-Century Suburbs,is concerned with the history, geography, architecture and planning of the ordinary suburban areas in which most British people live. It discusses the origins of suburbs; the ways in which they have been represented; the scale and causes of their growth; their form and architectural style; the landowners, builders and architects responsible for their creation; the changes they have undergone both physically and socially; and their impact on urban form and the implications for urban landscape management.