Suburban form
Subtitle: an international perspective
By: edited by Kiril Stanilov & Brenda Case Scheer.
Contributors: Stanilov, Kiril.; Scheer, Brenda Case, 1951-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Suburbs -- Cross-cultural studies.; Quality of life -- Cross-cultural studies.; Suburban life -- Cross-cultural studies.; Suburban homes -- Cross-cultural studies.; Land use -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Postwar growth and suburban development patterns / Kiril Stanilov; title: The changing form of suburbs. Introduction. Community, modernity, and urban change in Japan and the USA : Toyokawa and Cupertino in the late twentieth century / Piper Gaubatz. Complexity and contradiction in the ageing early postwar suburbs of Qubec City / Genevive Vachon, Nik Luka, Daniel Lacroix. Morphological diversity in the squatter settlements of Rio de Janeiro / Lilian Fessler Vaz and Paola Berenstein Jacques; title: Understanding the elements and the patterns. Introduction. Making a metropolitan landscape : Lyons 1812-1994 / Jacqueline Tatom. Radial street as a timeline / Brenda Case Scheer; title: The effect of planning. Introduction. Transformations of space : a retrospective on public housing in Singapore / Limin Hee and Chye-Kiang Heng. Building types and urban fabric of Rome's outer suburbs : from reading to planning / Maria Grazia Corsini. Planning for sprawl : the evolution of a regional shopping center / Kiril Stanilov; title: The reconstruction of the suburbs. Introduction. The transformation of large postwar housing areas in Sweden : adaptation to a blend of new and old planning ideas / Sonja Viden and Marina Botta. Suburban morphology and Portland's urban growth boundary / Thomas Harvey and Martha A. Works. Conserving the suburb : mechanisms, tensions and results / Peter J. Larkham.