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Title Suburban form : an international perspective / edited by Kiril Stanilov and Brenda Case Scheer.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Suburbs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Suburbs.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Quality of life -- Cross-cultural studies.
Quality of life.
Suburban life -- Cross-cultural studies.
Suburban life.
Suburban homes -- Cross-cultural studies.
Suburban homes.
Land use -- Cross-cultural studies.
Land use.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stanilov, Kiril.
Scheer, Brenda Case, 1951-
Other Form: Print version: Suburban form. New York : Routledge, 2004 0415314755 0415314763 (DLC) 2003007431 (OCoLC)52047519
ISBN 0203561260 (electronic book)
9780203561263 (electronic book)
0415314763 (Paper)
0415314755 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)