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The Moral Order of a Suburb
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 43.99This 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 Suburban
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 57.00Robert 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 Suburbia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 250.00Published in the year 1991, Changing Japanese Suburbia is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science. more...
Suburban Form
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 84.95This 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...
Suburban Century
Bloomsbury Publishing 2003; US$ 109.95Bad 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 Suburbia
Wiley 2011; US$ 49.95Updated 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 Beijing
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 75.00In 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 Edge
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00The book explains the interaction of dream and landscape on America's urban borderlands. more...
Die Amerikanisierung der Wiener Suburbia?
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99









