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Lewis-McCoy, R. L’Heureux. "Suburban Black Lives Matter." Urban Education 53, no. 2 (December 27, 2017): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085917747116.
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This article explores the range of experiences and meanings of Black life in suburban space. Drawing from educational, historical, and sociological literatures, I argue that an underconsideration of suburban space has left many portraits of educational inequality incomplete. The article outlines the emergence of American suburbs and the formation of the city suburb divide which governs much framing of educational inequality and why this frame has limited thinking about what suburbs are and who lies within them. I follow with a discussion of the contemporary state of the suburbs which are now often more racially, ethnically, and economically diverse than their proximal central cities. There are a variety of suburb types, and this article explores three: majority–minority suburbs, exclusive enclaves, and gateway communities. Each suburb type leads to unique challenges such as demographic mismatch between leadership and school population to considering how ethnicity and race interact with Afro-Latino communities. A discussion of how racialized poverty in suburbia shapes the school and social experiences of Black youth is offered. The article closes with the consideration of the directions researchers should consider and areas of policy that are ripe for reengagement given the diversity of Black experiences in suburban schools.
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Beck, Brenden. "Broken Windows in the Cul-de-Sac? Race/Ethnicity and Quality-of-Life Policing in the Changing Suburbs." Crime & Delinquency 65, no. 2 (November 15, 2017): 270–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128717739568.
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The racially disparate impacts of the carceral state are well studied, but most of the research has focused on large cities. Are suburban and urban policing similar? One trend suggests suburban policing might be in flux: U.S. suburbs underwent a dramatic demographic shift between 1990 and 2014. Their White populations declined sharply and their poor, non-White, and foreign-born populations all grew. During the same time, broken windows policing, with its aggressive enforcement of low-level quality-of-life crimes, gained popularity. Are suburban police departments adopting broken windows strategies or making racially disproportionate arrests in response to recent racial and economic changes? I use panel data ( N = 1,038 suburbs and 50 cities, with eight observations 1990 to 2014) in fixed effects regression models to address these questions. Data are compiled from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program and the Census. Descriptive statistics show that while quality-of-life arrests are down overall, the White–Black disparity in suburban arrests remains extreme, especially in mostly White suburbs. Multivariate models indicate that increases in poor people in a suburb are associated with increases in quality-of-life arrests, while more Hispanic people are associated with fewer arrests. Results suggest that urban and suburban policing dynamics are quite different.
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Curtin, Mary Elizabeth. "“LIKE BOTTLED WASPS”: BEERBOHM, HUYSMANS, AND THE DECADENTS’ SUBURBAN RETREAT." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 6, 2010): 183–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000331.
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Such was George Orwell's vision of suburban life in his 1939 novel Coming Up for Air – a vision of mindless, middle-class consumerism teetering always on the edge of financial ruin – a domestic life-in-death. Over the course of the twentieth century, suburbia has become the topos of bourgeois complacency, the locus of psychic decline. Strange, then, to think that at the end of the nineteenth century, two of Europe's Decadent writers – Max Beerbohm and Joris-Karl Huysmans – could find in the suburbs of London and Paris an aesthetic retreat from the snares of bourgeois urban life. In 1884, Huysmans published Against Nature, the paragon of fin-de-siècle Decadent fiction which recounts the movement of the syphilitic aristocrat, Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes, from the centre of Paris to the suburban village of Fontenay-aux-Roses where he constructs his anti-bourgeois aesthetic hermitage. Over ten years later, in 1896, Beerbohm published his satirical essay “Diminuendo,” in which the twenty-four-year-old writer announces his retirement from the literary world and his subsequent retreat to a quiet life of aesthetic contemplation in a London suburb. Needless to say, these suburban havens are a far cry from Orwell's sordid account of pre-war suburbia's obsession with false teeth and life insurance. Though only a little over fifty years separate Against Nature and Coming Up for Air, the suburbs of Huysmans and Orwell seem worlds apart. No one could imagine Des Esseintes's leather-bound study in the “Hesperides Estates,” and it seems unthinkable to picture Beerbohm locking himself away in a library amidst the cacophony of squealing infants and nagging housewives. The suburbs seem the least likely place in which the Decadent or dandy might thrive, and yet in Against Nature and “Diminuendo,” Huysmans and Beerbohm depict the suburbs as the last refuge of the man of taste. How could this be? What are these fin-de-siècle suburbs of London and Paris, and what do they signify in Huysmans's and Beerbohm's writing? These are the central questions I pose in this study of the Decadents’ retreat from urban life.
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Murphy, Alexandra K. "The Suburban Ghetto: The Legacy of Herbert Gans in Understanding the Experience of Poverty in Recently Impoverished American Suburbs." City & Community 6, no. 1 (March 2007): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2007.00196.x.
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Reports based on data collected from the 2000 U.S. Census reveal a dramatic transformation in the landscape of poverty and inequality in the United States in the 1990s. U.S. central city areas have witnessed considerable decreases in rates of poverty while, at the same time, suburbs have experienced significant increases in rates of poverty. Indeed, the outcome of this shift has resulted in demographic trends, quality of life issues, economic and social outcomes, and signs of physical deterioration that we often associate with deteriorating inner cities now being found in a number of American suburbs. Beyond basic demographic information, however, little is known about daily life in these areas. This paper explores the conceptual, analytical, and methodological contributions of Herbert Gans, specifically, his ethnographic study of the suburban community Levittown, for the study of these changes. The paper reviews the literature on suburban poverty in order to identify the ways in which Gans's work contributes to future suburban scholarship as students of the suburb grapple with trying to understand and examine this transformation and the impact that this suburban change has had on the daily lives of the poor living in these recently turned poor suburbs.
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Pandas, Anastasiia. "Suburbanisation as a factor in increasing life expectancy." Ekonomia 26, no. 3 (November 19, 2020): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2658-1310.26.3.5.
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The range of various options for the development of the suburban territory in the area of agglomeration is extremely wide. It covers both traditional forms of inclusion of suburban space in the city’s sphere of life, as well as new ways of interaction between the city and the suburbs. In this paper, we consider a specific form of spatial organisation — suburbia and its impact on the quality of life and, as a result, on the life expectancy of the population.The purpose of the article is to study the modem process of suburbanisation, as a phenomenon and its impact on increasing the life expectancy of the population, analyse the conceptual apparatus in the concept of lifestyle, and consider a complex of problematic issues of the urban environment that pose a risk to public health. We research the positive and negative effects of suburbanisation and identify the main factors influencing the suburbanisation process.To solve the problems, the following methods were used: analysis, synthesis, systematisation, comparison, rating.It is shown that the management of the processes of the formation of human habitat is now the most important, and perhaps the main task, without the solution of which it is impossible to effectively ensure optimal conditions for a person.
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Hesse, Markus, and Stefan Siedentop. "Suburbanisation and Suburbanisms – Making Sense of Continental European Developments." Raumforschung und Raumordnung 76, no. 2 (April 30, 2018): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13147-018-0526-3.
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Abstract This paper provides a brief overview of recent developments and debates concerned with suburbanisation in continental Europe. While current discourses in urban research and practice still focus on processes of reurbanisation and the gentrification of inner-city areas, suburbia continues to exist and thrive. Depending on the definition applied, suburban areas still attract a large share of in-migration and employment growth in cities of the developed countries. Given that popular meta-narratives on suburbia and suburbanisation are often spurred by, or refer to, North American suburban studies, we take a different perspective here, one based on continental European trajectories of development in and across city-regional areas that are considered to be suburban, and on social processes that are associated with suburbanisation (suburbanisms). Thus, we aim to avoid a biased understanding of suburbia as a spatial category, which is often considered mono-functional, non-sustainable, or in generic decline. Instead, we observe that suburban variety is huge, and the distinction between urban core and fringe seems to be as ambiguous as ever. The paper, which also introduces the theme of this special issue of “Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning”, bundles our findings along four themes: on suburbia as a place of economic development, on the shifting dynamics of housing between core and fringe locales, on the life-cyclic nature of suburbanisation, and on strategies for redevelopment. Finally, we discuss certain topics that may deserve to be addressed by future research, particularly on the European variant of suburbanisation and suburbs.
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MEZENTSEV, Kostyantyn, Natalia PROVOTAR, Oleksiy GNATIUK, Anatolii MELNYCHUK, and Olena DENYSENKO. "AMBIGUOUS SUBURBAN SPACES: TRENDS AND PECULIARITIES OF EVERYDAY PRACTICES CHANGE." Ekonomichna ta Sotsialna Geografiya, no. 82 (2019): 4–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2413-7154/2019.82.4-19.
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The article presents the conceptualization of suburban space changes through the prism of changing everyday practices and its verification based on cases in the suburban areas of Kyiv and Vinnytsia. Given task is problematic both theoretically and empirically, as the suburban space is not only a physical residence place of the inhabitants, but also an environment of their life with all interactions and social relations. It is possible to speak about several main types of suburban spaces in Ukraine, each characterized by the specific nature of changes and the way of residents’ life. Moreover, it is almost impossible nowadays to talk about the typical everyday life and everyday practices in the suburbia, as the latter becomes more and more heterogeneous as a result of the mixing, interaction and hybridization of various forms and practices, quite often within individual settlements. Investigating suburban inhabitants in the context of their daily life as residents, consumers, workers, and citizens through everyday practices provides an opportunity for a comprehensive understanding of the economic, social, cultural, and urban planning domains of the suburbia functioning in its relationship with the central city. Analyzed daily practices are related to the main components of human activity: accommodation, consumption, reproduction and upbringing of children, work, recreation, leisure and sports, education and cultural development, civic activity, mobility. The transformation of everyday practices is presented in the context of urban environment changes and emergence of new residents, orientation of residents to external interactions and meeting the needs in the central city/own settlement, mutual transformation and combination of old and new everyday practices. Changes in everyday practices have been identified in connection with the transformation of specific suburban areas, the behavior of residents and, ultimately, identity, and the factors of changes in everyday practices were revealed for different types of suburban spaces on the examples of Kyiv and Vinnytsia. The case studies show that transformations of the suburban spaces of Kyiv and Vinnytsia have similar driving forces, and the main consequences as well: radical change in population structure; loss or hybrid nature of the local identity of suburban settlements; advancing development of housing with underdeveloped engineering and social infrastructure; increasing heterogeneity, fragmentation and polycentricism of suburban spaces; growing the suburbia’s dependence on the central city
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Corcoran, Mary P., Jane Gray, and Michel Peillon. "Making Space for Sociability: How Children Animate the Public Realm in Suburbia." Nature and Culture 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 35–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2009.040103.
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This article aims to demonstrate the significant role children play in new suburban communities, and in particular, the extent to which their circuits of sociability contribute to social cohesion in the suburbs. The discussion is located within the field of sociology of childhood, which argues that children are active agents who help to create and sustain social bonds within their neighborhoods. Drawing on focus group discussions and short essays by children on “The place where I live,” we paint a picture of how suburban life is interpreted and experienced from a child's perspective. We argue that children develop a particular suburban sensibility that structures their view of their estate, the wider neighborhood, and the metropolitan core. Although children express considerable degrees of satisfaction with suburban life, they are critical of the forces that increasingly limit their access to suburban public space.
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Felton, Emma. "A f/oxymoron?: Women, creativity and the suburbs." Queensland Review 22, no. 2 (December 2015): 168–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2015.27.
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AbstractDonald Horne famously wrote, ‘Australia was born urban and quickly grew suburban’ (1964), an observation that carries a weight of assumptions about suburban living. Historically, the Australian suburbs have been regarded as places of retreat, family life and female activity, and subsequently as a place where not much of interest happens. By contrast, a city's central areas are seen as more dynamic spaces and, with recent creative city thinking and planning, as potential powerhouses of innovation and creativity. This article challenges assumptions about suburban living as passive places of retreat through an examination of women in the creative workforce who are living and working in the suburbs. It draws on historical accounts of creative suburban activity and a research project that mapped and investigated the experience of creative workers in the outer suburbs of Brisbane and Melbourne. The study finds that there is much creative work occurring in suburban localities, but this is not as unusual as might be expected.
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Bilston, Sarah. "“YOUR VILE SUBURBS CAN OFFER NOTHING BUT THE DEADNESS OF THE GRAVE”: THE STEREOTYPING OF EARLY VICTORIAN SUBURBIA." Victorian Literature and Culture 41, no. 4 (October 25, 2013): 621–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150313000144.
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While literary critics have becomeincreasingly engaged by the impact of suburbanization on the literary landscape, most scholarship has focused on texts from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The belief that suburbia appeared only occasionally in literature before this period is commonplace: as Gail Cunningham observes: “Although the term ‘suburb’ was used from Shakespeare and Milton onwards . . . it was not until the final decades of the nineteenth century that writers turned to suburban life as a subject of imaginative investigation” (Cunningham, “Riddle” 51). Cunningham's important work on suburban narrative positions authors of the late nineteenth century as architects of “the new imaginative category suburban,” one that was substantially shaped by the experience of observing and living amongst “newly massed middle classes” (Cunningham, “Riddle” 52). “[F]or many writers . . . the prime response to the new suburbia was one of anxiety and disorientation,” she argues. “How were they to conceptualize the sudden appearance of the new spatial environment?” (Cunningham, “Houses” 423). Yet Cunningham's emphasis on the newness of both the category and the lived experience underestimates the impact of suburbanization on the totality of the period. Suburbanization was a phenomenon that Victorian society had been experiencing, and responding to, for at least eight decades by the time of Victoria's death. Literary narratives engaging suburbia from these eight decades undoubtedly exist: they have received scant critical attention, yet they constitute a crucial tradition without which the most famous late-nineteenth-century texts of suburbia cannot be adequately understood.
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DINES, MARTIN. "Suburban Gothic and the Ethnic Uncanny in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides." Journal of American Studies 46, no. 4 (July 4, 2012): 959–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875812000722.
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If uncertainty and anxiety are the troubling but potentially radical qualities of gothic narrative, suburban gothic has typically been understood in terms of a banal unhomeliness which merely confirms reassuring commonplaces about the postwar American suburbs. In such readings, the suburbs are supposed to embody a desire to stand outside history: either they are places in which people seek refuge from their own pasts, or they represent an idealized past removed from the challenges of the present. This article argues that Jeffrey Eugenides's 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides undermines easy assumptions about the suburbs' atemporality. The novel's various gothic motifs suggest the difficulty of abandoning European pasts in order to adopt the white American identities required for a life in the suburbs; repressed ethnic difference haunts the suburban landscape. Yet Eugenides's suburban gothic also complicates the process of remembering such acts of forgetting: the difficulty of explicating suburban pasts, the novel insists, is precisely a measure of their having become historical. The drive to present comforting, codified narratives of the suburbs is shown to be part of a move – which always fails – to disassociate the present from these sites of conflict and trauma.
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Bagyura, Márton. "A life course perspective on suburbanisation." Socioloski pregled 58, no. 1 (2024): 3–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/socpreg58-47892.
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The paper explores the dynamics of migration from city to suburban area within the Budapest metropolitan area, framed within the life course approach. This approach posits that life events and prior residential experiences shape individuals' migration decisions, with a focus on the interconnectedness of residential experiences. The results, based on semi-structured interviews, examine the motivations and expectations of new residents of the suburban area for their new residences. The main drivers of migration to suburban areas are child-rearing and the pursuit of a more favourable living environment, mirroring conditions akin to rural childhood settings. Furthermore, financial constraints and real estate prices in Budapest compared to suburban areas also emerged as significant factors.
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Owens, Geoffrey Ross. "‘We are not farmers’: Dilemmas and prospects of residential suburban cultivators in contemporary Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Journal of Modern African Studies 54, no. 3 (July 28, 2016): 443–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x16000392.
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ABSTRACTToday, a majority of citizens of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, participate in suburban and exurban growth and development much like urbanites throughout the world. Unlike the garden suburbs of North America or Europe, Dar es Salaam's suburban residents often engage in multiple income-generating activities, the most common and conspicuous of which are cultivation and animal husbandry. The presence of urban farming has suggested that Dar es Salaam's residents represent peasants incrementally transitioning to urban life. This article however, contends that everything from the varieties of cultivation, access to land and water, to the definition of what it means to be a farmer is shaped by decentralised private interests controlling access to land and resources in suburban neighbourhoods. The varieties of cultivation and animal husbandry instead reflect socioeconomic class distinctions emerging from a new suburban political economy, enabling a clearer perspective on the prospects of cultivators as these suburban districts transform.
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Výbošťok, Ján, and Pavla Štefkovičová. "Housing affordability, quality of life, and residential satisfaction in the Austrian cross-border suburban region of Bratislava, Slovakia." Moravian Geographical Reports 31, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 2–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2023-0001.
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Abstract Bratislava’s satellites have experienced massive development in recent years. The population of a regional centre has moved into its Slovak hinterland. However, Bratislava’s cross-border suburbs have recorded spectacular population growth too. After 2008, housing in the EU became more affordable due to rising incomes and decreasing bank interest rates. Yet, the housing affordability index in the EU (and in the studied area) decreased in recent years due to increasing property prices and, more recently, a reverse tendency in bank interest rates. Through a questionnaire, we sought to establish a link between housing affordability and suburban residents’ expected quality of life. We assumed that a large proportion of the population had moved here specifically for a higher quality of life (residential satisfaction) and more affordable housing. Indeed, these were among the most common reasons for moving, with a large proportion of respondents choosing at least one. The Mann-Whitney U test showed that residents who moved to the Austrian suburbs of Bratislava for affordable housing were more satisfied with living in the municipality and housing costs. The article tries to fill the gap in the literature on housing affordability in suburban areas and on the quality of life of cross-border suburban residents.
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Vittorio Aureli, Pier, and Martino Tattara. "Retrofitting Suburban Settlements. A project for Limburg." Materia Arquitectura, no. 18 (April 24, 2021): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i18.405.
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One of the rising challenges for architects is to rethink the future of suburban territories built through the repetition of the detached single-family house. If until the 90’s the suburbs offered an attractive way of life, today many suburban territories arein demographic and economic decline. The province of Limburg in Flanders (Belgium) is a clear example of such condition. The article illustrates a design-research project that aimed at rethinking this suburban territory as a place where new generations could live and work. By reflecting on the historical circumstances that led to the construction of this suburban region, on the recent transformations of domestic space, and on the potential of landscape resources to restructure sprawling territories, the proposal becomes a wider case through which to start rethinking the condition of living and working in the contemporary city.
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Cleary, Joe. "A Suburban Funeral." Journal of Autoethnography 3, no. 3 (2022): 283–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.3.283.
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The author examines the most traumatic event of his life: the death of his mom. Detailed memories of times spent with his mom, as well as memories of the day of and the days after her death, provide the means through which the author goes about achieving two primary goals: first, and quite simply, the author seeks to tell a compelling story; second, the author searches for answers to a question that has plagued him for the last decade and a half: what does his mom’s death have to do with the collapse of his motivation for pursuing romantic relationships? The very specific traumatic feeling associated with his mother’s loss—an eternally unfulfilled longing—replicated itself within this secondary realm of his life, thereby causing the author to relive his greatest trauma every day. Through autoethnographic reflection and writing, the author arrives at conclusions about his mother’s death, as well as the loss of the second most important woman in his life sixteen months later, realizing that these two events have resulted in a form of PTSD.
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MCMANUS, RUTH, and PHILIP J. ETHINGTON. "Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history." Urban History 34, no. 2 (June 20, 2007): 317–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392680700466x.
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The history of suburbs has received so much scholarly attention in recent decades that it is time to take stock of what has been established, in order to discern aspects of suburbs that are still unknown. To date, the main lines of inquiry have been dedicated to the origins, growth, diverse typologies, culture and politics of suburbs, as well as to newer topics such as the gendered nature of suburban space. The vast majority of these studies have been about particular times and places. The authors propose a new perspective on the study of suburbs, one which will begin to investigate the transformations of suburbs after they have been established. Taking the entire era from the mid-nineteenth century through to the late twentieth century as a whole, it is argued that suburbs should be subjected to a longitudinal analysis, examining their development in the context of metropolises that usually enveloped them within a generation or two of their founding. It is proposed that investigation of these ‘transitions’ should be undertaken in parallel with the changes that occur in the life-cycles of their residents. It is suggested that an exploration of the interaction of these factors will open a broad new research agenda for suburban history as a subfield of urban history.
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Teaford, Jon C. "Life and Politics in Suburban Southern California." Journal of Urban History 29, no. 6 (September 2003): 811–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144203256042.
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Kukavica, Edin. "Analysis of Primary School Students’ Attitudes towards the Culture of Life." Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research .4, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.54392/ajir2146.
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The culture of life is a theological-philosophical term, which signifies a commitment to respect and protect life. The aim of this study was to investigate students’ attitudes towards the culture of life in Sarajevo Canton. Research included a sample of 1204 students of 6th grade of primary schools in Sarajevo Canton, divided into two subsamples of 602 students attending schools in suburban and urban parts of Sarajevo Canton, we examined the attitudes of students who acquired competencies in the subject Culture of Living to the aspect of culture as a phenomenon, with all its integral wholes from healthy lifestyles, through general cultural habits to traditional values. The results obtained by factor analysis indicate that students attending schools in the suburbs of Sarajevo Canton determine attitudes that have the premise of education in relation to students attending schools in urban areas of Sarajevo Canton, which are more determined by educational categories of attitudes. to conclude that the children of suburban schools have a greater influence of parents and families on attitudes compared to urban schools where the influence of teachers and schools is greater, based on the attitudes of students through a survey conducted.
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Gordon, Beverly M. "“Give a Brotha a Break!”: The Experiences and Dilemmas of Middle-Class African American Male Students in White Suburban Schools." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 114, no. 5 (May 2012): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811211400502.
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Background/Context Today, in the era of the first African American president, approximately one third of all African Americans live in suburban communities, and their children are attending suburban schools. Although most research on the education of African American students, particularly males, focuses on their plight in urban schooling, what occurs in suburban schools is also in need of examination. Purpose/Focus of Study This research focused on the lived experiences of 4 middle-class African American male students attending affluent White suburban schools. Through vignettes focusing on their various experiences and recollections, this study provides a preliminary snapshot, part of a larger study, of the schooling environments in the life stories of middle-class Black suburban youth. Research Design Qualitative methodology was used to explore the life histories of the 4 African American males. Each student participated in a tape-recorded interview to examine what it meant to grow up in White upper-middle-class suburban communities and to matriculate within suburban district schools from elementary through high school. Findings/Results The salient themes that emerged from the rich, interactive conversations and dialoguing address issues related to disillusionment and resilience; the presence or absence of racism; academic pressures; social bonding and identity development in racialized social and academic settings; and the gatekeeping role of athletics. Conclusions/Recommendations Suburban education may not be the panacea that African American families had hoped. The socioeconomic status of African American families who live in affluent White suburban communities may not be enough to mitigate against the situated “otherness” that Black students—in this case, males—experienced in affluent White suburban schools. More research is needed to understand the positionality of Black male students in suburban schools; relationships between suburban Black adolescent males and females; school life beyond athletics; the role of the family and community in combating racism and otherness; and how student agency can be a force for change.
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Martinez, Amanda Marie. "Suburban Cowboy." California History 98, no. 1 (2021): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2021.98.1.83.
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This essay analyzes the political and cultural significance of confrontations between country music fans and punk rockers in the suburban community of Costa Mesa, California, in the early 1980s. During this time, Orange County was defined by paradox. On one hand, the region proved historically influential to leading conservative politics and the rise of Ronald Reagan, and bore a legacy of a country music and cowboy culture that well complemented such conservatism. And yet, the area also served as the breeding ground where right-wing politics and suburbanism’s sonic resistance, hardcore punk rock, took root. More than a simple culture clash, the conflict between country music fans and punk rockers represented a moment when two uniquely suburban and Southern California sounds collided at a significant point of transition in American politics and culture, and at heart revealed a conflict over the merits of suburban life. This struggle over space was one in which country music fans emerged victorious, as their efforts to violently quash the local punk scene worked in conjunction with city leaders who forcibly closed the region’s leading punk venue, the Cuckoo’s Nest, in 1981 and revealed a solidarity between country music fans, local police, and local politicians.
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PROVOTAR, Natalia, Anatolii MELNYCHUK, Oleksiy GNATIUK, and Olena DENYSENKO. "CHANGING EVERYDAY PRACTICES IN SUBURBAN SPACES: A METHODOLOGY TO INVESTIGATE LOCAL TRENDS." Ekonomichna ta Sotsialna Geografiya, no. 81 (2019): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2413-7154/2019.81.34-41.
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Urban and suburban spaces are social and multidimensional. The city and its suburbia constitute an arena of diverse and conflicting social processes. Their social differentiation is manifested, first of all, in housing segregation and diversity of various types and forms of life activity. Social interactions and relationships between individuals and social groups take place in the social space of the city and the suburbia. Their behavioural practices lie at the intersection of economic, social, cultural, environmental, and urban planning domains of urban functioning and manifest themselves in everyday practices. The concepts addressing the research of everyday practices were designed and tested in the fields of sociology, history, and economy. The goal of this article is to develop a methodology for the study of local trends of changing everyday practices in suburban spaces of cities with different functions on the bases of human geography and urban science. The authors propose to study everyday social practices using actor-network theory, making possible to consider the variability of everyday practices of suburban residents as a network of interaction between actors (people, non-people, and ideas) that create, act and change. The initial phase of the research involves a general analysis of the processes and paradigms of suburban development of model cities by analysing scientific literature, field trips to selected suburban areas, use of remote sensing data and local media screening. Based on this analysis, the cases (test areas) are determined. The analytical stage of the study tries to identify characteristics, factors and trends of the temporal changes in the everyday practices of the population of selected areas, focusing on the everyday practices of leisure and self-organization. This stage of the study involves comparative historical and comparative geographical analysis, mapping, in-depth interviews, as well as field observations. The ending stage aims at identification of current trends and peculiarities of changing everyday practices in ambiguous suburban spaces and developing recommendations for local governments and planning agencies.
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Polich, Cynthia Longseth, Marcie Parker, and Laura Himes Iversen. "Housing Preferences of Suburban Elderly in Minnesota." Journal of Housing For the Elderly 4, no. 1 (June 1987): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j081v04n01_09.
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Lasa-Álvarez, Begoña. "A Girl’s Life in English Interwar Suburbia: Evadne Price’s Just Jane." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 84 (2022): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.07.
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Just Jane, the first of a series of books for young female readers written by the Australian-English writer Evadne Price, was published in 1928. The young heroine starring in the book and the members of her family represent the typical middle-class family living in an English suburban area, a type of neighbourhood which underwent an unprecedented growth during the 1920s. This article analyses Price’s text in the light of the new lifestyle fostered in English interwar suburbia, as it illustrates how, together with the building of new houses and neighbourhoods, new values concerning family relations, gender roles, social networking and leisure activities were generated and promoted.
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Connor, Michan Andrew. "Holding the Center." Southern California Quarterly 94, no. 2 (2012): 230–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2012.94.2.230.
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Early television shows that focused on Los Angeles as subject, such as The City at Night (KTLA) and Jack Linkletter's On the Go (CBS), assured white, middle-class, suburban viewers that they had a place in the larger metropolis by presenting a selective knowledge of its features and issues. On the Go surpassed the entertainment level of The City at Night to address some serious social issues. By the mid-sixties, suburbanization had been fully embraced as the "good life." Shows such as Ralph Story's Los Angeles (KNXT), instead of engaging suburban viewers in metropolitan issues, entertained them with glimpses of the city's "oddities." The change in tone marked the passing of the center of cultural identity from the central city to the suburbs.
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Monti, D. "High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century." Journal of American History 100, no. 2 (August 13, 2013): 570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jat232.
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Terry, David P. "Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life." Quarterly Journal of Speech 103, no. 4 (September 7, 2017): 434–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2017.1368224.
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Glock, Judge. "High life: condo living in the suburban century." Planning Perspectives 29, no. 2 (February 10, 2014): 262–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2014.885795.
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Longstreth, Richard. "High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century." AAG Review of Books 2, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2325548x.2014.894417.
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Wood. "Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 20, no. 2 (2017): 357. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.2.0357.
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Manis, Derek, and Brenda Gamble. "Life With HIV in a Canadian Suburban Community." Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care 30, no. 5 (September 2019): 584–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jnc.0000000000000053.
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Oliver, J. Eric. "Mental Life and the Metropolis in Suburban America." Urban Affairs Review 39, no. 2 (November 2003): 228–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087403254445.
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Hannsson, Lennart. "Requirements by the Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major for a suburban life." Ornis Svecica 2, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.34080/os.v2.23062.
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The Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major has expanded its habitat range to include suburban areas in Sweden. This range expansion may affect entire communities of hole-nesters by proficient excavation of nest holes. Numbers, habitat and nest site selection were studied in a 3 km2 suburban area in south-central Sweden during the years 1983—91 and in several forest landscapes without houses. Densities were much higher in various habitats within the suburban landscape but in such areas woodpeckers preferred to nest in woodland areas that were fairly distant from houses and in large trees. Nest heights and the number of nest holes per tree increased with distance from houses, while the proportion of Aspens among nest trees decreased with distance from houses. Aspens still dominated strongly among nest trees. The proportions of new nests and trees with single nests were lower in the suburban area than in remote forests. It is concluded that nest sites, and possibly breeding densities, are constrained by the few old or decaying trees left when new housing areas are built. Retainment of old trees and different-sized young Aspens would promote higher densities of woodpeckers and other hole-nesters and maintain a high diversity of hole-nesting species.
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Holloway, Adrienne M. "From the City to the Suburbs: Characteristics of Suburban Neighborhoods Where Chicago Housing Choice Voucher Households Relocated." Urban Studies Research 2014 (June 16, 2014): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/787261.
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The Housing Choice Voucher program (HCV) is a federally supported demand-side housing subsidy. According to HCV, eligible households are encouraged to secure affordable housing in favorable neighborhoods, including suburban neighborhoods. To what extent, however, is the supply of affordable rental housing located in suburban communities that offer favorable amenities meeting the increased demand? Using the Geography of Opportunity as a framework, this study examines the mobility results of traditional HCV households who moved from the city of Chicago to surrounding suburban neighborhoods to reveal characteristics of destination communities. Findings indicate that HCV households tend to move into suburban renter neighborhoods that have high poor, African American, and female-headed household populations. Policy makers are encouraged to consider findings to improve life outcomes of suburban HCV program participants.
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Bošelová, Miriama. "Socio-Cultural Aspects of Present-Day Internal Suburban Migration in Slovakia – in the Example of the Village Soblahov in the Trenčín District." Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology 67, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 275–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/se-2019-0016.
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Abstract The present-day internal migration of people from larger or smaller towns to the countryside is characterised by suburbanisation tendencies that considerably transform the socio-cultural and spatial structure of suburban municipalities. The aim of this paper is to present, based on the ethnological research conducted in 2018–2019, selected socio-cultural aspects of present-day suburban migration with a view to the impacts of suburbanisation on the social and cultural environment in the municipality/village of Soblahov. The paper looks specifically at the inside of suburban communities, the daily-life reality of the suburban actors and on the manifestations of suburbanisation – the social and cultural aspects, as well as the time and spatial manifestations of suburban migration.
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Besser, Lilah M., and James E. Galvin. "Rural Versus Non-Rural Residence and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Caregivers of Patients with Dementia and Related Disorders." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 85, no. 3 (February 1, 2022): 993–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jad-215162.
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We used data on 718 dementia caregivers and multivariable linear regression to test associations between residential locale and psychosocial outcomes (grief, wellbeing, burden, quality of life [QOL], self-efficacy/mastery, and social networks). Rural residence (versus urban or suburban) was not associated with the psychosocial outcomes. However, for rural caregivers, greater self-efficacy/mastery was associated with lower grief (versus urban/suburban) and burden (versus suburban), and greater social network quality was associated with lower burden (versus suburban) and higher QOL (versus urban). Interventions targeting self-efficacy/mastery and social networks may be particularly effective at improving rural caregivers’ mental health and QOL.
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Andrew Burke. "“Do you smell fumes? ”: Health, Hygiene, and Suburban Life." ESC: English Studies in Canada 32, no. 4 (2008): 147–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.0.0004.
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Knapp, Kathryn. "Life in the ‘Hood: Postwar Suburban Literature and Films." Literature Compass 6, no. 4 (July 2009): 810–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00642.x.
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Campanella, Thomas J. "‘A welcome alternative to city life’: China's suburban revolution." URBAN DESIGN International 1, no. 2 (June 1996): 173–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/udi.1996.21.
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Vaughan, Laura, and Sam Griffiths. "The Spatial Morphology of Community in Chipping Barnet c.1800–2015: An Historical Dialogue of Tangible and Intangible Heritages." Heritage 4, no. 3 (June 30, 2021): 1119–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030062.
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This article presents a case study of the London suburb of Chipping Barnet to show how a spatial-morphological approach to tangible heritage challenges its archetypal image as an affluent commuter suburb by highlighting its resilience as a generative patterning of social space that has weathered successive phases of social change. We argue that the enduring spatial-morphological definition of Barnet as a local centre explains how it has been possible to preserve something less tangible—namely its identity as a suburban community. We show how Barnet’s street network constitutes community heritage through a combination of local- and wider-scale affiliations that have sustained diverse localised socio-economic activity over an extended period of time. Noting how local histories often go further than sociological studies in emphasising the importance of the built environment for indexing the effects of social change on everyday life, we draw on a range of archive sources including the analysis of historical maps using space syntax techniques, to reveal Barnet’s street network as a dialogue of both tangible and intangible heritages that are formative of a suburban community.
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Lord, Sebastien, and Nicolas Luxembourg. "The Mobility of Elderly Residents Living in Suburban Territories." Journal of Housing For the Elderly 20, no. 4 (March 12, 2007): 103–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j081v20n04_07.
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Kiryunin, Ivan, and Vladimir Tikhii. "Analysis and mapping of the structure of suburban settlement of the city of Orel." InterCarto. InterGIS 28, no. 2 (2022): 160–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35595/2414-9179-2022-2-28-160-171.
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From the late 1980s to the present, the “ceiling” of urbanization has been reached in the Oryol region—the share of the urban population is in the range of 62–66 %, around the city of Oryol, in rural areas, a large number of the population is concentrated, the number of which is growing. Often, in the territorial planning system, the area of contact between urban and rural territories is not distinguished in any way, the development strategy of this territory cannot have the expected result. In this regard, the main purpose of the work was an attempt to identify the suburban area of the city of Orel using the method of transport zoning, which is based on the analysis of transport communication. The method of transport zoning of suburban areas allows us to estimate the territorial concentration of the suburban population in individual parts of the district. Each zone differs in the transport conditions of settlement, including the conditions of transport service. The paper presents the result of the application of the methodology for identifying suburban areas as territories served by different modes of transport on the example of the city of Orel. Based on the assessment of the differentiation of transport mobility of the population, as the most important condition for the quality of life, the zoning of the suburb of Orel was carried out. Its structural zones are highlighted—the neighborhood of the city, the near suburb and the far suburb. To achieve the purpose of the study, data from the All-Russian population censuses, OpenStreetMap data, and field research information were used. Based on these data, maps were built in QGIS that visually display the phenomena under study, and the zoning of the Oryol Municipal District was carried out. The article also concludes that transport communication radically affects the settlement system of the population, demonstrates the tendency of settlement in areas with better transport links.
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Alba, Richard D., John R. Logan, Brian J. Stults, Gilbert Marzan, and Wenquan Zhang. "Immigrant Groups in the Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial Assimilation." American Sociological Review 64, no. 3 (June 1999): 446–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000312249906400307.
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For a number of contemporary immigrant groups, suburbanization is occurring at high levels, and either increased or remained stable during the 1980s, a decade of high immigration. We investigate whether these settlement patterns are consistent with spatial-assimilation theory. Using Public Use Microdata from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. censuses, we examine the link between suburban residence and life-cycle, socioeconomic, and assimilation characteristics for 11 racial/ethnic groups, including those growing most from contemporary immigration as well as non-Hispanic whites. We find support for some aspects of the theory. The determinants of suburban residence are consistent between the 1980 and 1990 models, with some important exceptions: Among several groups, especially Asian groups, the effects of very recent immigration and linguistic assimilation have weakened. Our findings indicate that barriers to the entry of new immigrants to suburbia are now lower than before. The growing numbers of recent immigrants there suggest the emergence of new ethnic concentrations and infrastructure.
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Blumin, Stuart M. "The Center Cannot Hold: Historians and the Suburbs." Journal of Policy History 2, no. 1 (January 1990): 118–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600006874.
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In 1962 Sam Bass Warner, Jr., published an important book about suburbanization in late nineteenth-century Boston. Like most influential books, it was timely in its subject, and Warner's scholarly study might be supposed to have built upon the interest that was being generated by numerous popular analyses of contemporary suburbanization and suburban life in post—World War II America. One can indeed find in Streetcar Suburbs the same fundamental preoccupation with the shallowness of communal life and similar diagnoses of the sprawl of single-family homes in homogeneous and militantly residential areas on the periphery of the city, as one finds in say, William H. Whyte's 1956 critique, The Organization Man.' Yet Warner's book was not part of, and did not initiate, a new genre of historical suburban studies. Instead, it served as one of the essential founding texts of what came to be known as the “new urban history”—a large number of scholarly attempts to examine the character and structure of life at the center of the developing big cities of industrializing America. Not the “crabgrass frontier” but the “urban frontier” defined the territory of historical adventure during the 1960s. The metaphor is not, and was not then, entirely an academic one. In 1961 the new President of the United States had called for a “new frontier” of public initiative, and planner Charles Abrams helped his immediate successor expand and locate that initiative with his book, The City Is the Frontier. Without entirely losing interest in the suburbs, scholars, policymakers, and citizens of various kinds suddenly realized the importance of understanding the city and its history.
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Špačková, Petra, Nina Dvořáková, and Martina Tobrmanová. "RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION AND INTENTION TO MOVE: THE CASE OF PRAGUE'S NEW SUBURBANITES." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 98, no. 4 (December 2016): 331–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geob.12108.
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ABSTRACTSuburbanization has been a particularly significant process in transforming the metropolitan regions in Central and East European countries in the past two decades. Many critics emphasize the negative consequences of suburbanization, such as a low level of residential environment quality, and some of them anticipate that suburbanites' expectations would remain unfulfilled. Moreover, a growing body of literature describes the tendency for reurbanization and discusses the importance of back‐to‐the city moves. Few authors, however, have paid attention to the empirical evidence of the residential stability of suburban areas. Therefore, this paper seeks to investigate the relationship between the quality of the suburban environment, the everyday life experiences associated with suburbia, and reurbanization tendencies. Various aspects of residential satisfaction and intentions to move in the medium term were analysed using data from a questionnaire survey which was carried out in three case study sites within Prague's hinterland. In addition, major differences between groups of potential “stayers” and “movers” were examined to reveal key factors which lie behind intentions to move from current suburban homes. The results suggested a relatively high degree of stability and a reasonable overall satisfaction of new suburbanites with their residential environment. They also indicated that trigger moments in the decision‐making process were more closely related to the changing needs of households than the wider residential environment. Based on the research results, we were able to hypothesize that (1) a strong out‐migration from the suburban zone is rather unlikely in the near future, and (2) only a small proportion of new suburbanites are likely to engage in the reurbanization process.
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Ides, Matt. "Book Review: High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century." Southern California Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2013): 237–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2013.95.2.237.
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Burton, Paul. "The Australian Good Life: The Fraying of a Suburban Template." Built Environment 41, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 504–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.41.4.504.
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Voon, Boo Ho, Liping Wang, and Ai Kiat Teo. "Sustainable Suburban Environment and Service for Happier Households." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 6, no. 17 (August 15, 2021): 251–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i17.2886.
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Many emerging economies have allocated significant amount of resource for sustainable suburbanization and development initiatives to serve and care for the targeted communities for happier households. The governments, private enterprises, and NGOs have been working together for sustainable suburban socio-economic development. Their sustainability practices and good quality service have helped to achieve the desired development outcomes for a better quality of life for the stakeholders. This paper aims to share the case study of Batu Kawa Suburb (Kuching, Sarawak) and the related lessons from Shaoxing (Zhejiang, China) to understand sustainable suburbanization environment and service for sustainability. Keywords: Sustainable suburban environment; Service. eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i17.2886
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Puławska-Obiedowska, Sabina, Tomasz Bajwoluk, and Piotr Langer. "Impact of Transport Development on the Accessibility of Selected Functional Elements: The Case of the Suburban Zielonki Municipality within the Krakow Metropolitan Area." Sustainability 14, no. 3 (February 5, 2022): 1821. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031821.
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The objective of this paper is to present the findings of an investigation of areas of concentration of selected functions within the Zielonki suburban community—namely, their mutual relations and accessibility. The investigation of interdependence between transport system development within a municipality and transformation processes observed to take place in its territory can allow one to determine the precepts of its future development. The investigation covered Zielonki—a suburban community near Krakow—as a distinctive case of contemporary transformations of the functio-spatial structure of a suburban zone that remains under the influence of the developmental processes of a large urban center in Poland. The ongoing urbanization of suburban areas indicates their constant investment attractiveness. However, the development of transport infrastructure does not seem to keep pace with the ongoing process of change, especially in the areas of new housing and service concentration zones. The observed phenomena negatively impact the emergence of a sustainable suburban space, and the increase in vehicular traffic lowers the quality of life within this area.
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Kretova, Lola A. "FEATURES OF EXPERIENCING THE EPIDEMIC IN RURAL LIFE: THE IMPACT OF SOVEREIGNTY AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS." Scientific Review. Series 2. Human sciences, no. 3-4 (2020): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.26653/2076-4685-2020-3-4-09.
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The lifeworld of former townspeople escaping megalopolises and moving to the countryside obtains a special significance in the context of isolation and epidemic. Our goal is to describe the structure of this world, to identify its ontological features that are not determined by the historical context. Substantial autonomy and psychological sovereignty are, in our opinion, a significant part of the lifeworld of a suburban/rural resident and come to the fore when we consider their coping with critical situations. In this paper, based on the literature evidence of personal experience, we examine the specific characteristics of the experience of the epidemic as a critical situation, conditioned by the structure of the lifeworld of a suburban/rural resident. Central to our research was the autobiographical text of A. T. Bolotov about his experience of the plague epidemic of 1770–1772. It was compared with autobiographical notes of later authors and current reports of megalopolis and rural residents about their personal experience of COVID-19 pandemic. Phenomenological and hermeneutic analysis of textual data shows that the experience of a critical situation in rural life differs from the experience in a large city; the differences are associated with the sovereignty and simplicity of the lifeworld of suburban/rural residents.