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Local Identity on a Regional Level
4D, 2023 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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ParkingPLUS: How Design Produces a Future for Long Island’s Suburban Downtowns
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2016 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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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2021 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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Mythologizing Food: Marion Halligan’s non-fiction
Coolabah, 2011 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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Suburban design: from “bedroom communities” to sustainable neighborhoods [PDF]
Geodetski Vestnik, 2016 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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‘The Way of Our Streets’: Exploring the Urban Sacred in Three Australian Poems
Religions, 2016 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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Transport for suburbia: Beyond the automobile age, by Paul Mees
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2012 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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Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2010 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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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2021 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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Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2017 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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