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Suburban urbanities : suburbs and the life of the high street /
Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth. Anchored in the architectural research disciplin...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: suburbs are as old as the city itself
- Part A: Theoretical preliminaries. 1. The suburb and the city
- 2. The high street as a morphological event
- Part B. Suburban centralities. 3. Suburban continuity and change
- 4. Spatial memory and shifting centrality
- 5. Street quality, street life, street centrality
- 6. Beyond lively streets
- Part C. High street diversity. 7. High street diversity
- 8. High street transactions and interactions
- Case Study 1. High street productivity
- Case Study 2. High streets and the pedestrian realm
- Part D. Everyday sociability. 9. Street interaction and social inclusion
- 10. Sociability and ethnic identity
- 11. Being suburban.