Suburban Form - An International Perspective (Paperback, annotated edition)

Contents:
Introduction: Postwar Growth and Suburban Development Patterns. Part 1. The Changing Form of Suburbs. Introduction 1. Community, Modernity, and Urban Change in Japan and the USA: Toyokawa and Cupertino in the Late Twentieth Century 2. Complexity and Contradiction in the Ageing Early Postwar Suburbs of Québec City 3. Morphological Diversity in the Squatter Settlements of Rio de Janeiro. Part 2. Understanding the Elements and the Patterns. Introduction 4. Making a Metropolitan Landscape: Lyons 1812-1994 5. Radial Street as a Timeline. Part 3. The Effect of Planning. Introduction 6. Transformations of Space: A Retrospective on Public Housing in Singapore 7. Building Types and Urban Fabric of Rome's Outer Suburbs: From Reading to Planning 8. Planning for Sprawl: The Evolution of a Regional Shopping Center. Part 4. The Reconstruction of the Suburbs. Introduction 9. The Transformation of Large Postwar Housing Areas in Sweden - Adaptation to a Blend of New and Old Planning Ideas 10. Suburban Morphology and Portland's Urban Growth Boundary 11. Conserving the Suburb: Mechanisms, Tensions and Results. Index.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	2004
Editors:	Brenda Case Scheer • Kiril Stanilov
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-31476-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	0-415-31476-3
Barcode:	9780415314763

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