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This special issue of M/C Journal has been prompted by the "Creative Suburbia" symposium held at the Queensland University of Technology in September 2010. The symposium brought together researchers from cultural studies, communication and media studies, cultural geography, urban planning and cultural policy to share research and perspectives while
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In France, suburbia has become an intellectual category regularly resorted to by the media, most notably the written press. It has even become the topic of a debate in which journalists and specialists actively take part. Urban sprawl and the new ways of
Gérald Billard, Arnaud Brennetot
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This paper examines the ongoing transformations of residential development underway in the North-Western corridor of the Madrid metropolitan region, which are a consequence of a deconcentration process that has affected the capital of Spain over several ...
Marco Adelfio, Manuel Valenzuela
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Amerykańskie przedmieścia w cieniu wielkiego miasta
Przedmieścia to Rosja, tylko że z pieniędzmi – ten żart przytoczony przez Williama H. Whyte’a w słynnej książce The Organization Man wskazuje na co najmniej ambiwalentny status dzielnic podmiejskich, obecny także w reprezentacjach kulturowych.
Patrycja Włodek
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ParkingPLUS: How Design Produces a Future for Long Island’s Suburban Downtowns
Speculative design can be a useful tool in building broad-based support among community members and stakeholders for denser, transit-oriented development, and a greater mix of uses in North American suburbs, particularly in suburban regions characterized
June Williamson, Kaja Kühl
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According to Giorgio Agamben, the Greek term for ‘habitual dwelling place,’ or ‘habit,’ is ethos. The rise to prominence in the twentieth century of the modern idea of the suburb, or ‘suburbia,’ held open the door to the potential realization of the ...
Howard David Brian
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Suburban design: from “bedroom communities” to sustainable neighborhoods [PDF]
One of the main issues in the current suburban development is mono-functionality. Suburban formats that mainly function as “bedroom communities” are large housing estates, urban sprawl and suburban satellite housing – former villages surrounding large ...
Milena Dinić, Petar Mitković
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Monstrous youth in suburbia: Disruption and recovery of the American dream [PDF]
Although the American Dream myth idealizes youth who grow up in suburbia as culturetypes of imminent success, the Columbine High School shootings demonstrated that all not suburban youth will grow up to succeed.
Hoerl, Kristen
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Mythologizing Food: Marion Halligan’s non-fiction
This paper discusses Marion Halligan’s non-fiction, particularly her writing on food: Those Women who go to Hotels, Eat my Words, Cockles of the Heart, Out of the Picture, and The Taste of Memory. The focus is on how Halligan deconstructs and reconstruct
Ulla Rahbek
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