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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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‘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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Do the suburbs exist? Discovering complexity and specificity in suburban built form [PDF]
, 2009 In human geography cities are routinely acknowledged as complex and dynamic built environments. This description is rarely extended to the suburbs, which are generally regarded as epiphenomena of the urbs and therefore of little intrinsic theoretical ...
Griffiths, S +3 more
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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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Purísima 3: un ejemplo de villa periurbana en "Valentia"
Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra, 2017 Este artículo tiene como objetivo mostrar los restos inéditos de un espacio doméstico situado en los suburbia de Valentia, a menos de 1 km del pomoerium, de características únicas en la ciudad. Se trata de una serie de estancias pavimentadas con mosaicos
Mirella Machancoses López +1 more
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Suburbanisation and Suburbanisms – Making Sense of Continental European Developments
Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2018 This paper provides a brief overview of recent developments and debates concerned with suburbanisation in continental Europe. While current discourses in urban research and practice still focus on processes of reurbanisation and the gentrification of ...
Markus Hesse, Stefan Siedentop
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Comparative Analysis of the Patterns of Informal Settlements Case study: Marivan city [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2017 Informal settlements is one of the fundamental challenges of urban management and identifying the existing patterns in these settlements will help to manage this type of style of residence.
Farzad Veisi
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The challenge of sustainable suburbia [PDF]
, 2008 This paper explores issues raised with the expansion of Milton Keynes and the dilemmas in seeking to plan for sustainable travel behaviour. The 1970 design of Milton Keynes was for a car-oriented low density land use pattern served by a one-kilometre ...
Potter, Stephen
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La cristianización de la topografía funeraria en las ciudades occidentales: Corduba en la Antigüedad Tardía [PDF]
, 2006 In questo articolo vedremo come i dati archeologici odierni ci permettono analizzare l’evoluzione delle areae cimiteriali di Corduba nella Tarda Antichità, un processo nel qualle l’espansione del Cristianesimo e la cristinizzazione delle necropoli ...
Sánchez Ramos, Isabel
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