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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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Local Identity on a Regional Level
The interaction of people and place creates local identity, providing orientation in a complex world and a sense of place for residents. Over time, as the cultural interactions of a group creates links between narratives and places, local identities ...
Wolfram Höfer
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‘The Way of Our Streets’: Exploring the Urban Sacred in Three Australian Poems
This article examines three contemporary Australian poems that concern themselves with matters of the sacred within the modern Australian city. Noting that Australian poetry and the sacred have often been studied in terms of the landscape, the article ...
Lachlan Brown
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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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Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California
Geographical research on French and US suburbia has concentrated in recent decades on urban sprawl and concomitant processes of devaluation and exclusion.
Weber Florian, Kühne Olaf
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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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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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Transport for suburbia: Beyond the automobile age, by Paul Mees
This book review summarizes and evaluates Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age, by Paul Mees. The argument in Transport for Suburbia is that density is not a necessary prerequisite for an effective transit system, and that transfers can be ...
Jessica E. Schoner
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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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