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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...
Visions of Suburbia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clapboard and brick of fifties Sydney. Architecture... 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...
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...
Once the American Dream
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 24.95At one time, a move to the suburbs was the American Dream for many families. However, despite the success of Levittown, NY,impoverished “inner-ring” suburbs—those closest to the urban core of metropolitan cities—like Lansdowne, MD, are in decline. As aging housing stock, foreclosures, severe fiscal problems, slow population... more...
Manufacturing Suburbs
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, Manufacturing Suburbs reclaims the history... more...
Die Amerikanisierung der Wiener Suburbia?
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99Metroburbia, USA
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 24.95Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America's metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of "metroburbia"ùfragmented mixtures of employment and residential... more...









