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Suburban cities and towns

  • The Moral Order of a Suburbby M. P. Baumgartner

    Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 43.99

    This study examines the way residents of an affluent New York suburb deal with conflict in their families, neighbourhoods and community. Drawing on research, observation and numerous interviews, the author provides a portrait of an increasingly prevalent type of American community. more...

  • When America Became Suburbanby Robert A. Beauregard

    University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 57.00

    Robert A. Beauregard examines the intersection of urban decline, suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Placing the decline of America's cities and the rise of the suburbs into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to... more...

  • Changing Japanese Suburbiaby Ben-Ari

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 250.00

    Published in the year 1991, Changing Japanese Suburbia is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science. more...

  • Suburban Formby Brenda Case Scheer; Kiril Stanilov

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 84.95

    This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century. The premise that suburban areas are monotonous, inert environments is put to a test through investigation of the complexity of those suburban settings and the dynamic physical changes that have taken place... more...

  • Superbia!by Dan Chiras; Dave Wann

    New Society Publishers 2003; US$ 24.95

    The only book that shows how to transform existing suburbs to create environment- and people-friendly neighborhoods... more...

  • Suburban Centuryby Mark Clapson

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2003; US$ 109.95

    Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like American Beauty and novels like The Ice Storm. But are they really as homogenous and conservative as we think they are? In this wide-ranging comparative study of England and the United States, Mark Clapson offers new... more...

  • Retrofitting Suburbiaby Ellen Dunham-Jones; June Williamson

    Wiley 2011; US$ 49.95

    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been... more...

  • Suburban Beijingby Friederike Fleischer

    University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 75.00

    In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban China have started to cultivate personal space and have a new incentive to make more money, and... more...

  • Being American on the Edgeby Joseph Goddard

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    The book explains the interaction of dream and landscape on America's urban borderlands. more...