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1 online resource |
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City Planning - Architecture - Society |
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City Planning - Architecture - Society
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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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Don't trust the idyll. Meritorious objectives and arguable substance in Dutch suburbiaThe dynamics of the Eastern European suburbs. Kazan, Kyiv and Bucharest; Suburban development in Argentina: a historical overview and the current trends. The case of Cordoba; Geographies of suburban transformation: the case of Amman, Jordan; Changing Face of Suburbia: A Narrative of Indian Cities; Authors |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Suburbs.
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Cities and towns -- Growth.
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City planning.
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Cities and towns -- Growth
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City planning
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Suburbs
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
3838267095 |
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9783838267098 |
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