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“The compass of possibilities”: Re-Mapping the Suburbs of Los Angeles in the Writings of D.J. Waldie [PDF]
European Journal of American Studies, 2011 This article uses the works of the writer, memoirist, and Lakewood, California public official, D. J. Waldie to deepen our concept of “region” and to re-assess many of the stereotypical discourses associated with the American suburbs.
Neil Campbell
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Household Structure and Suburbia Residence in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from the American Housing Survey [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2016 Suburbs have demographically diversified in terms of race, yet little research has been done on household structures in suburbs. Using the 2011 American Housing Survey and 2009–2013 American Community Survey, this study investigates the distributions of ...
Gowoon Jung, Tse-Chuan Yang
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Suburbia as a Narrative Space in the Cinematic Universe of Douglas Sirk
Language Value, 2021 Douglas Sirk, now fully recognized as an influential filmmaker, was considered a successful but uninteresting director in the 1950s. His melodramas were considered bland and subsequently ignored because they focused on female-centric concerns.
Nieves Alberola Crespo +1 more
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Belgeo, 2007 The main research question of this study aims to clarify, if it is possible to speak of an emancipation of suburbia; a postsuburbia. Two indicators shall help to show the role that the suburbia of Vienna plays with regard to the global integration of the
Robert Musil
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Critiquing the Center: The Role of Tutor Evaluations in an Open Admissions Writing Center [PDF]
, 2014 Though created to give its inhabitants the feeling of comfort, structure, and control, suburbia has been co-opted by postmodernists seeking to crack its modernist façade to reveal the hybridity, fragmentation, and hegemony at its commodified heart ...
Burns, William
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Socially Sustainable Suburbia: Addressing a Puzzling and Multifaceted Issue
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2016 This issue links the concept of social sustainability with suburbia. It emphasises the multi-disciplinary, yet, insufficiently defined character of ‘socially sustainable suburbia’ and engages in a cross-disciplinary dialogue in order to overcome the ...
Marco Adelfio
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Splendeur et misère du périurbain. Introduction
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2010 This issue of Articulo – Journal of Urban Research explores the tension born of the interplay between two “medial images”. On the one hand, suburbia conceived of as a relegation zone, a removal from city sometimes tantamount to a removal from life.
Yves Bonard +3 more
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The Garden City and the American Dream
Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge, 2020 Howard’s Garden city tradition is central in American urban planning and it has had great influence, also in its interpretations that were most distant from the original utopian model, on the ways in which the American city has grown.
Simona Totaforti
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Проект Байкал, 2012 There are two variants for Russian translation of the English word ‘suburbia’. One of them, ‘prigorod’ (suburbs), has a respectful shade of meaning, typical of the American suburbia within the last decades, when the suburbs were inhabited by the middle ...
Elena Grigoryeva
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Post-suburbia dan Tantangan Pembangunan di Kawasan Pinggiran Metropolitan: Suatu Tinjauan Literatur
Majalah Geografi Indonesia, 2018 Post-suburbia merupakan fenomena transformasi perkotaan yang banyak ditemui di berbagai tempat. Fenomena ini terjadi sejalan dengan proses dekonsentrasi dan desentralisasi pekerjaan ke kawasan suburban yang menyusul populasi, sehingga menjadikan pusat ...
Erie Sadewo +2 more
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