After Suburbia
Title | After Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Keil |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 2022-08-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1487531079 |
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.
After Suburbia
Title | After Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Keil |
Publisher | Global Suburbanisms |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2022-05-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781487504878 |
After Suburbia presents state-of-the-art suburban research to examine twenty-first century cities from the point of view of their peripheries.
The End of the Suburbs
Title | The End of the Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | Leigh Gallagher |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1591846978 |
Originally published in hardcover in 2013.
The Sprawl
Title | The Sprawl PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Diamond |
Publisher | Coffee House Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020-08-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1566895901 |
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.
Suburbia
Title | Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Donald N. Rothblatt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2021-06-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000383660 |
Originally published in 1986, and drawing on material from the USA, The Netherlands and Israel, this book addresses the question of whether suburban environments enhance the quality of life and which factors influence this quality. It examines whether suburbs really provide improved housing and community services compared to the central city and whether they foster rewarding social patterns and psychological well-being. It also analyses precisely what characteristics suburban areas offer and how congruent these characteristics are with the preferences of suburban residents.
Driving After Class
Title | Driving After Class PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Heiman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2015-01-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520277740 |
"A paradoxical situation emerged in the late 1990s: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream, even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. Driving After Class explores middle-class anxieties and suburban life duringthose years. Drawing on nineteen months of ethnographic research in a suburban New Jersey town as McMansions sprouted up next to subdivisions of moderately sized colonial-style homes and infrastructural essentials like schools and roads became overburdened, each chapter throws into relief subtle gradations within the middle class and among middle-class sensibilities, and brings to life the ways that people were reorienting themselves--both consciously and unconsciously--to the discursive and material displacement of postwar liberal approaches to middle-class life in favor of newly dominant neoliberal logics. The ethnographic moments illustrated in the book, drawn from fieldwork in people's homes, their town hall, and their SUVs, reveal the ways that efforts to appease feelings of insecurity--whether through place-making practices, childrearing strategies, or 'had-to-have' purchases--often made people (and their neighbors) feel and be less secure. The economics and cultural politics of the constellation of these ways of being, which I have termed 'rugged entitlement,' ended up steering many children, youth, and parents into ambivalence about the structuring and texture of their everyday lives: it is exhausting work to be strategically and persistently driving after class. But more often than not, unable to imagine the possibility of crafting another way of life, most curbed these unsettling doubts and resolutely fueled up for the ride"--Provided by publisher.
Visions of Suburbia
Title | Visions of Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Silverstone |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135094551 |
Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clapboard and brick of fifties Sydney. Architecture and landscapes may vary from one suburban scene to another, but the suburb is the embodiment of the same desire; to create for middle class middle cultures, middle spaces in middle America, Britain and Australia. Visions of Suburbia considers this emergent architectural space, this set of values and this way of life. The contributors address suburbia and the suburban from the point of view of its production, its consumption and its representation. Placing suburbia centre stage, each essay examines what it is that makes suburbia so distinctive and what it is that has made suburbia so central to contemporary culture. _