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Author Schönig, Barbara

Title Variations of Suburbanism
Published Columbia University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series City Planning - Architecture - Society
City Planning - Architecture - Society
Contents Content; Introduction: Variations of Suburbanism; Part I (Re- )developing Suburban Spaces; Mapping Urban Landscapes -- Between understanding, interpreting and negotiating; Challenge of maturation -- Life cycles and patterns of change in suburban settlement space; Designing suburban infrastructure: The A 40/ B1 Bochum; Airport (Sub)Urbia -- Transforming Berlin Brandenburg's periphery; Part II Suburban Spaces -- Global Variations; Unfinished suburbanization -- Leipzig between Suburbia, Creative City and Shrinking; A Big Gamble for ""Greater Paris""
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Summary Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it's the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and public transportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this question requires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct local characteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this
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Subject Suburbs.
Cities and towns -- Growth.
City planning.
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Suburbs
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3838267095
9783838267098