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A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Using murder mysteries to address what she saw as destructive, rather than progressive, forces coming from the city into the countryside of north Fulton County, Georgia, journalist and fiction writer Celestine Sibley (1914–1999) attempted to present the ...
Margaret T. McGehee
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Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
Few metropolitan areas better represent recent national demographic trends and the challenges of neighborhood- and school-based segregation than the Atlanta metro region.
Karen Pooley
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New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Beth Tarasawa writes about the changing patterns of school segregation for Latino and African American students in Atlanta.
Beth Tarasawa
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The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Dorothy Moye explores the prevalence and significance of the X-code, a symbol used by search-and-rescue teams in 2005 to mark searched property in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
Dorothy Moye
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Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
In this essay, Andrew M. Busch discusses the histories of segregation and gentrification in Austin, Texas's Eastside and examines the rise of New Urbanism in the development of the Eastside's Eleventh Street corridor.
Andrew M. Busch
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City-regionalism as a politics of collective provision : regional transport infrastructure in Denver, USA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The rise of the city-region concept has focused attention on the nature of territorial politics underpinning city-regionalism. This paper investigates the relationship between territorial politics, city-regionalism and the collective provision of mass ...
Bhattacharjee, Sutapa   +2 more
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Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban communities ...
R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy   +3 more
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African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2006
One of the most striking developments in recent southern history has been the pace and scale of African American suburbanization. Delving into the history of black organizations, civic politics, race-based policies, class economics and neighborhood ...
Andrew Wiese
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Suburban zone of `The Transect: comparing morphologies and design qualities of residential neighbourhoods in Sydney, Kolkata and Miami [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Morphologies of human environments vary in terms of their nature, spatial characteristics, and intensity of development. ‘The Transect’, an integrated zoning code for the City of Miami in USA, provides form based guidelines for development along rural ...
Ghosh, S
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The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2010
In 2008 and 2009, John Howard produced a series of photographs addressing building and dwelling—the former understood as both edifice and constructive process, the latter as both domicile and cognitive process.
John Howard
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