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Journal of Planning Literature, 2012 There is no consensus as to what exactly constitutes a suburb. This article examines the range of suburban definitions in terms of their structure and the topical issues that they grapple with. Suburbs have been defined according to many different dimensions from location and transportation modes to culture and physical appearance. Given this confusion,
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Local centres in post-socialist suburbs: Redefined concept and retrofitting perspectives
Moravian Geographical Reports, 2022 Chaotically developed post-socialist suburbs need retrofitting by providing residents with a local central space. This research aims at developing a typology of suburban local centres, describing the most common central spaces according to adopted ...
Mantey Dorota
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Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2013 The article applies to three autobiographical novels written in the 1980s and 1990s by citizens of France, second-generation Algerian immigrants. The authors of these novels widely relate to their own experience of life in the suburbs of French cities ...
Jacek Kubera
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Social housing in a suburban context: A bearer of peri-urban diversity? [PDF]
Urbani Izziv, 2018 In recent years, French urban policies have demanded reflection on the possible relations and intersections between two emblematic, and almost antithetical, forms of housing: collective social housing and suburban single- family housing.
Ion Maleas
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Construction Activity as an Element of Suburban Zone Development
Land, 2021 The dynamic process of suburbanisation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, causes changes in the scale of the construction activity, mainly in the communes surrounding large cities.
Donata Wysocka +2 more
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Development of the structure of Lithuanian gardens and parks from the 16th to the 20th centuries
Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2011 The historical development of Lithuanian parks cannot be separated from the historical evolution of our cities and towns and formation of their urbanistic structure.
Albinas Mocevičius
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Visualizing Variation in Majority-Black Suburbs in the United States
Socius, 2021 The aim of this visualization is to highlight sociodemographic variation among Black suburbs and spur further research on them. The authors provide a sociodemographic portrait of Black suburbs, defined as those that are more than 50 percent Black, to ...
Kiara Wyndham +2 more
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Coherence and Cacophony: Architecture and Interdisciplinarity in Studies of Early Modern London
Architectural Histories, 2015 Review of: Dana Arnold,'The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820' (New York: Routledge, 2013); Elizabeth McKellar, 'Landscapes of London: The City, the Country and the Suburbs 1660–1840' (New Haven and London: Yale ...
Kimberley Skelton
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Beyond the Cosmopolis: Sustaining Hyper-Diversity in the Suburbs of Peel Region, Ontario
Urban Planning, 2018 Globalization has increased the flow of transnational migrants into many European and North American cities. These shifting socio-demographic patterns have resulted in the rapid development of ‘cosmopolitan’ urban centres where difference and diversity ...
Jennifer Dean +4 more
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Different Forms of Welfare Provision for Diverse Suburban Fabrics: Three Examples From Italy
Urban Planning, 2022 Over the last 20 years, suburbanization has gradually turned into a key topic of analysis, whereas welfare policies have faced a significant public reconfiguration towards the local scale of provision and the development of local welfare systems ...
Lorenzo De Vidovich
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