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The Right to Suburbia

Author : Willow S Lung-Amam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520974417
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Suburbia written by Willow S Lung-Amam and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment. Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"—that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs—and how communities are fighting back.

Trespassers?

Author : Willow S Lung-Amam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967224
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Trespassers? written by Willow S Lung-Amam and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly skilled and educated migrants from China, Taiwan, and India. At the same time, the response to these newcomers among long-time neighbors and city officials revealed complex attitudes in even the most well-heeled and diverse communities. Trespassers? takes an intimate look at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of these dramatic demographic shifts. At the broadest level, it raises questions about the rights of diverse populations to their own piece of the suburban American Dream. It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway and one of the nation's largest Asian American–majority cities. There, it highlights the passionate efforts of Asian Americans to make Silicon Valley their home by investing in local schools, neighborhoods, and shopping centers. It also provides a textured tale of the tensions that emerge over this suburb's changing environment. With vivid storytelling, Trespassers? uncovers suburbia as an increasingly important place for immigrants and minorities to register their claims for equality and inclusion.

The Sprawl

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895901
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sprawl written by Jason Diamond and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

Dreaming Suburbia

Author : Amy Maria Kenyon
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332283
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming Suburbia written by Amy Maria Kenyon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization.

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

Author : June Williamson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119149185
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia written by June Williamson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia This amply-illustrated book, second in a series, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century’s other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren’t designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence. Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges provides summaries, data, and references on how these challenges manifest in suburbia and discussion of successful urban design strategies to address them in Part I. Part II documents how innovative design strategies are implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of changing suburban places from coast to coast are described in depth in 32 brand new case studies. Written by the authors of the highly influential Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs Demonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places Illustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams Full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. Most of all, it is intended as a useful guide for anyone who seeks to inspire revitalization, justice, and shared prosperity in places they know and care about.

Domestic Wild: Memory, Nature and Gardening in Suburbia

Author : Franklin Ginn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148428
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Domestic Wild: Memory, Nature and Gardening in Suburbia by : Franklin Ginn

Download or read book Domestic Wild: Memory, Nature and Gardening in Suburbia written by Franklin Ginn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Domestic Wild, Franklin Ginn sets out to find a new sense of the wild at the heart of modernity. Inspired by experienced, skilful gardeners, Ginn analyses what happens when plants, animals and people meet in the suburbs of London. Weaving major theories of landscape, memory and nonhuman subjectivity with the practical wisdom of gardeners, this book offers a radical new account of everyday gardening. Amid spectacular horizons of planetary loss, Domestic Wild argues that gardening offers a means to cultivate a renewed sense of intimacy with nature and ourselves.

Radical Suburbs

Author : Amanda Kolson Hurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948742368
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Radical Suburbs written by Amanda Kolson Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist explores the other side of America's suburbs

The New Suburbia

Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197578306
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The New Suburbia written by Becky M. Nicolaides and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The New Suburbia explores how the suburbs transitioned from bastions of segregation into spaces of multiracial living. They are the second generation of suburbs after 1945, moving from starkly segregated whiteness into a more varied, uneven social landscape. The suburbs came to hold a broad cross-section of people - rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, and the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. In the new suburbia, white advantage persisted, but it existed alongside rising inequality, ethnic and racial diversity, and new family configurations. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained - low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and yards and families seeking the good life. On this familiar landscape, the American dream endured even as the dreamers changed"--

The End of the Suburbs

Author : Leigh Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1591846978
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Suburbs written by Leigh Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2013.

The Song of Suburbia

Author : David Bouchier
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462095038
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Song of Suburbia written by David Bouchier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning humorist and radio personality David Bouchier has been called "The H.L. Mencken of the subdivisions." He applies his satirical wit, wisdom, and a touch of philosophy to the everyday dramas of suburban life. In this second collection of essays, originally broadcast on National Public Radio stations WSHU and WSUF in Long Island and Connecticut, he explores and explains such quintessentially suburban themes as: the the trauma of an empty driveway; romance in the catering hall; a visit from the exterminator; the metaphysics of golf; and the lament of the suburban commuter.

Our Town

Author : David L. Kirp
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813524566
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Our Town written by David L. Kirp and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is both an inspiring account of public interest law at its best and a sobering assessment of how 'the soul of suburbia' continues to resist social justice. . . . an unexpectedly moving account of hope, idealism, and intelligence." --The New York Times Book Review "A well-written, exhaustively researched account of the legal battle to open New Jersey's suburbs to the poor . . . The authors actually took the time to talk to the lawyers and litigants on both sides of the controversy. Their chronicle of the legal developments is informed, and much improved, by the flesh-and-blood stories of those who actually lived the case. . . . a cautionary and inspiring tale." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "The authors of Our Town in particular enable readers to see historical continuity in legal and popular discussions of race, realism, and housing patterns in American society. Our Town also explores the challenges to public policy raised by the existence of residential segregation patterns." --The Nation " This book] is valuable both as a case study of judicial activism and its consequences and as a detailed anaylsis of suburban attitudes regarding race, class, and property." --Urban Affairs Review

Suburban Planet

Author : Roger Keil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745683150
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Suburban Planet written by Roger Keil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about the process that creates the global urban periphery – suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we encounter there. Richly detailed with examples from around the world, the book argues that suburbanization is a global process and part of the extended urbanization of the planet. This includes the gated communities of elites, the squatter settlements of the poor, and many built forms and ways of life in-between. The reality of life in the urban century is suburban: most of the earth's future 10 billion inhabitants will not live in conventional cities but in suburban constellations of one kind or another. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's demand not to give up urban theory when the city in its classical form disappears, this book is a challenge to urban thought more generally as it invites the reader to reconsider the city from the outside in.

Infinite Suburbia

Author : MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616896701
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Suburbia written by MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

Author : Ellen Dunham-Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118027671
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition written by Ellen Dunham-Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions. Retrofitting Suburbia was named winner in the Architecture & Urban Planning category of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) awarded by The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers

After Suburbia

Author : Roger Keil
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531079
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book After Suburbia written by Roger Keil and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.

Dreaming Suburbia

Author : Amy Maria Kenyon
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814339131
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming Suburbia written by Amy Maria Kenyon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom. Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization. Questions of race, class, and gender are explored through novels, film, television and social criticism where suburbia features as a central theme. Although suburbanization had important implications for cities and for the geo-politics of race, critical considerations of race and urban culture often receive insufficient attention in cultural studies of suburbia. This book puts these questions back in the frame by focusing on Detroit, Dearborn and Ford history, and the local suburbs of Inkster and Garden City. Covering such topics as the political and cultural economy of suburban sprawl, the interdependence of city and suburb, and local acts of violence and crises during the 1967 riots, the text examines the making of a physical place, its cultural effects and social exclusions. The perspectives of cultural history, American studies, social science, and urban studies give Dreaming Suburbia an interdisciplinary appeal.

The Suburb Reader

Author : Becky Nicolaides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135396396
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Suburb Reader written by Becky Nicolaides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays, The Suburb Reader documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day. Through thematically organized chapters it explores multiple facets of suburbia’s creation and addresses its indelible impact on the shaping of gender and family ideologies, politics, race relations, technology, design, and public policy. Becky Nicolaides’ and Andrew Wiese’s concise commentaries introduce the selections and contextualize the major themes of each chapter. Distinctive in its integration of multiple perspectives on the evolution of the suburban landscape, The Suburb Reader pays particular attention to the long, complex experiences of African Americans, immigrants, and working people in suburbia. Encompassing an impressive breadth of chronology and themes, The Suburb Reader is a landmark collection of the best works on the rise of this modern social phenomenon.