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Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction
Taschenbuch von Carl Abbott
Sprache: Englisch

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It sometimes seems as if suburbs are taking over the world. For the last two centuries, most urban growth has been on the edges. This book surveys not only the Brady Bunch suburbs of the United States but also improvised communities on the edges of Latin American cities and the high-rise suburbs of Eastern Europe and East Asia. Some suburbs have been carefully planned to the last detail by master architects while others are the result of thousands of individual decisions by households and builders. Together they have built the places that billions of people call home.
It sometimes seems as if suburbs are taking over the world. For the last two centuries, most urban growth has been on the edges. This book surveys not only the Brady Bunch suburbs of the United States but also improvised communities on the edges of Latin American cities and the high-rise suburbs of Eastern Europe and East Asia. Some suburbs have been carefully planned to the last detail by master architects while others are the result of thousands of individual decisions by households and builders. Together they have built the places that billions of people call home.
Über den Autor
Carl Abbott retired after teaching urban studies and planning at Portland State University over five decades. He has written about the history of cities from Washington to Chicago to Los Angeles to Portland. He is a past president of the Urban History Association and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and has served as co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Pacific Historical Review. He also writes about the intersections of history, urbanism, and speculative fiction. Recent short essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Washington Post, and Bloomberg CityLab.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of illustrations

  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction: What is a suburb?

  • 1: The first suburban century

  • 2: Suburbs at flood tide

  • 3: Vertical suburbs

  • 4: Improvised suburbs

  • 5: Suburban work

  • 6: What's wrong with suburbs

  • 7: Two hundred years and counting

  • References

  • Further reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 160
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780197599242
ISBN-10: 0197599249
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Abbott, Carl
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 175 x 111 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Carl Abbott
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,136 kg
preigu-id: 122044475
Über den Autor
Carl Abbott retired after teaching urban studies and planning at Portland State University over five decades. He has written about the history of cities from Washington to Chicago to Los Angeles to Portland. He is a past president of the Urban History Association and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and has served as co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Pacific Historical Review. He also writes about the intersections of history, urbanism, and speculative fiction. Recent short essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Washington Post, and Bloomberg CityLab.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of illustrations

  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction: What is a suburb?

  • 1: The first suburban century

  • 2: Suburbs at flood tide

  • 3: Vertical suburbs

  • 4: Improvised suburbs

  • 5: Suburban work

  • 6: What's wrong with suburbs

  • 7: Two hundred years and counting

  • References

  • Further reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 160
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780197599242
ISBN-10: 0197599249
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Abbott, Carl
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 175 x 111 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Carl Abbott
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,136 kg
preigu-id: 122044475
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