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Differential belongings: socio-cultural distinctions in suburban residential areas

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2014
This paper explores suburban middle-class residents’ narratives about housing choice, everyday life and belonging in residential areas of Greater Copenhagen, Denmark, to understand how residential processes of social differentiation are constituted.
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An Examination of Residential Preferences in the Suburban Era

Sociological Focus, 1988
Abstract It has been suggested that suburban “minicities” now provide the services necessary for working wives and mothers to balance the multiple demands on their time, leading women to prefer suburban over central city neighborhoods. Data from the 1983 national Annual Housing Survey verify that women prefer suburban neighborhoods, but fail to support
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Suburbanization, the Spread of Suburban Culture: A Residential Mobility Approach to the Post-WW II Suburban Types in American Metropolis

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Traditional accounts often have underestimated complexities involved in suburbanization process by assuming direct, linear causality to explain the suburban patterns of metropolitan development. Yet, an explicit explanation that encompasses the complexities of the multitude of flux of causal relationships and feedbacks and incorporates demographic and ...
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Urban growth boundary policy and residential suburbanization: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Habitat International, 2004
Abstract The process of suburbanization of Riyadh, a city of 4.5 million inhabitants, offers a unique situation in which the urban morphology of the city can be examined in light of socio-political and economic conditions. Central government ordinances helped create ‘dysfunctional’ sprawl by mandating big lots and overly wide streets.
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Childhood Nature Experiences Across Residential Settings: Rural, Suburban, and Urban

2015
Much concern has been raised over the past decade that children are not engaging in outdoor play as frequently as in past generations. Little is known, however, about the specific interactions that children have with natural environments and the variability in nature-related free play and recreation among children.
Kristi S. Lekies, Jed D. Brensinger
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Role of parks in residential district by physical activity on suburban residential area

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2023
Kaoru Matsuo, Sennosuke Matsumoto, Shigeaki Takeda, Hiroyuki Kaga   +3 more
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Towards carbon neutrality : possibilities for North America’s suburban residential developments

2006
The objective of the thesis Towards Carbon Neutrality: Possibilities for North America’s Suburban Residential Developments is to develop a process by which an existing suburban residential development can be analysed for its potential to accept retrofit strategies towards the goal of meeting challenging sustainability targets.
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Suburban residential streetscape : an investigation of development controls and practices

2011
The recent explosive growth of suburbs may be interpreted to be a contemporary expression of man's basic desire to secure for himself an improved living environment. This modern exodus of population to suburbs in North America was made possible by the automobile, which, by making individual mobility a reality, enabled man to establish his place of ...
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Attitudes toward Residential Environment and Crime Prevention in Suburban Residential Area

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2010
Toshiyuki Okamura, Fumihiko Nakamura, Takuya Nakatsugawa   +2 more
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A study on residential relocation and residents' awareness of housing maintenance in suburban residential areas

Reports of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2022
Maiku Takagi, Masako Murota
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