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What's in a name? : talking about urban peripheries /
In What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Global suburbanisms.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Naming Process; 3 "Suburb Is Not a Rude Word in Australia": A Lexical History; 4 Doubts about "Suburbs" in Canada; 5 Defining Peripheral Places in Quebec: A Review of Key Planning Reports and the Media, 1960-2012; 6 Bombay's Urban Edge: Villages, Suburbs, Slums, and the Expanding City; 7 Kampungs, Buitenwijken, and Kota Mandiri: Naming the Urban Fringe on Java, Indonesia; 8 From Favela to Comunidade, and Beyond:The Taming of Rio de Janeiro.
- 9 Naming Rome's Edge: Cultural and Political Representations of the Borgata10 Naming Madrid's Working-Class Periphery, 1860-1970: The Construction of Urban Illegitimacy; 11 To Name or Not to Name: Contradictions in Naming Processes of One Bucharest District; 12 Some Reflections on Comparing (Post- )Suburbs in the United States and France; 13 Périurbain, from Woes to Words: Political and Social Uses of a New Administrative Category; 14 The New Neighbourhoods: The Discursive (and Other) Transformation of South Sofia's Modest Beginnings.
- 15 Lost in Translation: Names, Meanings, and Development Strategies of Beijing's Periphery16 Concluding Suggestions; Contributors; Index.