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Constructing a suburban identity : youth, femininity and modernity in late-Victorian Merseyside. [PDF]
, 2010 Suburban growth was one of the main characteristics of late-nineteenth-century British towns, and a suburban life style rapidly became the aspiration of a high proportion of urban dwellers. This paper explores the experience of one young woman growing up
Pooley, Sian, Pooley, Colin
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Romanian Suburban Housing : Home Improvement through Owner-building [PDF]
, 2013 The new suburban housing developments in post-socialist cities have been ubiquitous icons of socioeconomic and physical change. This paper examines suburban owner-built housing as a long-term strategy of home improvement in Romania. It analyses residents’
Soaita, Adriana Mihaela
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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The sustainable suburban high street: a review of themes and approaches [PDF]
, 2008 Whether suburbs are regarded as a distinctive feature of the contemporary urban landscape or as symptomatic of ‘sprawl’ the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in suburbia has done little to displace the dominant image of the suburb as a primarily ...
Griffiths, S. +8 more
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Suburban Planet. Making the World Urban from the Outside In [PDF]
, 2018 Book Review by Pablo Mendez of Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In written by Roger ...
Mendez, Pablo
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Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Southern Spaces, 2008 In these photographs, taken between 2005 and 2008, Amie Vanderford samples hand-painted, commercial signs in Memphis neighborhoods. Vibrant and changing markers on the cityscape, these signs situate neighborhood identity, from historically African ...
Amie Vanderford
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, 2022 Die Jubiläumsausgabe von sub\urban widmet sich unter dem Titel „sub\x“ vor allem aktuellen Positionen des Urbanen. Dieser Beitrag hingegen widmet sich vor allem möglichen Alternativen des sub, das die Perspektive der Redaktion auf das Städtische ...
Bertram, Grischa
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Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Southern Spaces, 2008 This essay explores Ponce de Leon Park, a popular turn-of-the-last-century amusement park two miles east of Atlanta, through postcards, photographs, video, and historical analysis.
Sarah Toton
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Service-poor suburban housing estates?
, 2023 Since the time of their construction, post-war suburban high-rise housing estates in Finland have been criticised for their lack of local services available to residents.
Oskar Rönnberg +13 more
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When the conditions get under the skin: Thinking urban health relationally [PDF]
, 2022 Insbesondere in Städten werden Gesundheitsungleichheiten individuell verkörpert. Gleichzeitig werden sie in Recht-auf-Stadt-Kämpfen kollektiv adressiert. Dennoch bleibt das Verhältnis zwischen Gesundheit und Ungleichheit in der Kritischen Stadtgeographie
Bůžek, Richard +3 more
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