Suburban Urbanities

• Автор: Vaughan, Laura (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: UCL Press 2015
• Предмети: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; suburbs; urban studies; planning; architecture; Built environment; Islington; London; Space syntax; Surbiton; Upper Street
• Онлайн доступ: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Резюме

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 discipline of space syntax, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change, touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges, with a particular focus on suburban centres. Studies of the high street as a centre for social, economic and cultural exchange provide evidence for its critical role in sustaining local centres over time. Contributors from the architecture, urban design, geography, history and anthropology disciplines examine cases spanning Europe and around the Mediterranean. By linking large-scale city mapping, urban design scale expositions of high street activity and local-scale ethnographies, the book underscores the need to consider suburban space on its own terms as a specific and complex field of social practice.

Фізичний опис

1 electronic resource (374 p.)

ISBN

111.9781910634134
9781910634141;9781910634134;9781910634158

Доступ

Open Access