Screen LibrarySuburban form：an international perspective
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 270 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0415314755 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0415314763 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0203561260 (eBook) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: | C912.8 |
| Call Number: | C912.8/S941 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. Postwar growth and suburban development patterns / Kiril Stanilov -- 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 -- Understanding the elements and the patterns. Introduction. Making a metropolitan landscape : Lyons 1812-1994 / Jacqueline Tatom. Radial street as a timeline / Brenda Case Scheer -- 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 -- 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. |