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Singer, Simon I., and Kevin Drakulich. "Crime and Safety in Suburbia." Annual Review of Criminology 2, no. 1 (January 13, 2019): 147–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-011518-024652.

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Criminologists have long focused their attention on the inner-city street corner and neglected the suburban cul-de-sac. Crime in the suburbs should be of greater criminological concern. Cities are no longer centrally located. Suburbanization has impacted not only where most Americans live but also the types and reasons for crime. We begin this review with an overview of the unique structures of the suburb and the rise of the suburban city. We complicate the image of the dangerous city and the safe suburb and examine broad trends in crime and safety within each. The reasons and types of suburban crimes are further related to the decentered, diffused, and less public places of suburbia. Types of crime are described and prospects for future research into the structure and culture of suburbanization as they relate to comparative criminological research are discussed.

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Muminovic, Milica, and Holly Caton. "SUSTAINING SUBURBIA – THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PUBLIC PRIVATE INTERFACE IN THE CASE OF CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 12, no. 3 (November 4, 2018): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v12i3.1793.

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Among existing and anticipated changes in global urbanisation and population growth, the challenge of retrofitting suburbia within sustainable cities needs to be considered. However, given the opposing nature of sustainability and suburbia, this task is not easy. Different approaches have tried to define the theory for achieving sustainable cities, but the nature of suburbia presents issues in densification, as density is perceived to limit the liveability and importantly the private sphere that makes suburbia desirable. To begin addressing sustainability in suburbia, the question of how to densify suburbs while maintaining their liveable quality, needs to be addressed. Focusing on the case of Canberra the paper builds a framework for discussing these questions within analysis of suburb density, behavioural studies and the public private interface. In doing so, it is evident that sustaining suburbia through densification, within the context of sustainable cities, cannot be considered without recognising morphology and the need for, and integration of, the public private interface.

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Barraclough, Laura R. "Contested Cowboys." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 37, no. 2 (2012): 95–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/azt.2012.37.2.95.

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While most studies of Mexican American suburbanization since the 1970s focus on the transformation of residential (private) space, it is in suburban public space that some of the most important struggles over belonging and rights have occurred. This article builds a theoretical framework to analyze the relationships between public space, democracy, and cultural citizenship for historically marginalized groups in suburbia. It applies the framework to the efforts by two groups of charros (ethnic Mexican cowboys) who tried to hold charreadas (events similar to rodeos) on land leased from municipal governments in suburban Los Angeles during the 1970s. These cases demonstrate that localized histories of racialization intersect with distinct political geographies to shape unequal possibilities for the effective exercise of Latino cultural citizenship in suburbia. Where ethnic Mexican suburbanites resided in isolated neighborhoods, were disconnected from the urban barrio, and struggled for political representation in vast urban districts, they were unlikely to be successful in claiming public space. But in independently incorporated suburbs with historic webs of Mexican settlements and strong ties to the barrio, ethnic Mexican suburbanites succeeded in challenging suburban exclusion and claiming a more inclusive, transformative “right to the suburb.”

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Johnson, Cameron, Tom Baker, and Francis L. Collins. "Imaginations of post-suburbia: Suburban change and imaginative practices in Auckland, New Zealand." Urban Studies 56, no. 5 (September 12, 2018): 1042–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018787157.

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Imaginative practices are central to ongoing transformations in the form and function of suburbia. In recent years, urban scholars have focused increasing attention on the concept and process of ‘post-suburbanisation’ to understand contemporary suburbs, yet imaginaries and imaginative practices have been largely absent in their analyses. This paper examines the role of imaginative practices in post-suburban change. Through a case study of Auckland, New Zealand, the paper examines three key domains of imaginative practice – visions, problems and trajectories – implicated in the production of post-suburbia. It argues that understandings of post-suburbanisation will be enhanced by an appreciation of both the material and imaginative dimensions of suburban transformation.

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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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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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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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Maginn, Paul J., and Nicholas A. Phelps. "Making Sense of Twenty-First Century (Sub)Urban Landscapes: Blandscapes, Blendscapes, Brutalscapes and Brutopianscapes." Built Environment 49, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.1.5.

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This paper makes a call for a more nuanced reading of the dynamic kaleidoscope of (sub)urban landscapes that characterize contemporary metropolitan regions. Within this metropolitan context, there is a need to move beyond perceiving the 'suburbs' as distinct and separate from, and, subservient to the 'city'. If anything, the suburbs are in a deep symbiotic relationship with the 'city' – (sub)urban entanglements. Such entanglement means that the suburbs and the city simultaneously exhibit suburban and urban elements. Hence, the terms (sub)urban, (Sub)urban, (sub)Urban, and (SUB)URBAN are used as a framework to denote the varying degrees of intermingling and scale of suburbanity and urbanity that characterize (sub)urban areas. Although suburbia has long been framed as a fundamental facet of the 'American dream' and the 'great Australian dream' the suburbs have been the object of much criticism, and derided for their conformity, domesticity and uniformity. In short, the suburbs have been stereotyped as a blandscape. However, as metropolitan regions have grown in physical and demographic terms, an array of (sub)urbanisms have emerged, and continue to do so, thereby creating a (sub)urban blendscape in terms of housing morphologies, densities, land uses, socio-cultural diversity, and governance at the metropolitan, sub-regional, local government, and suburb level. Simultaneously, an array of (sub)urban brutalscapes have also emerged as metropolitan regions have expanded. Suburbanization, extended urbanization, gentrification and (sub)urban regeneration are all contributing processes to the (re)production of brutalscapes that manifest at a range of scales and assume a variety of forms – e.g. infrastructural, sociocultural, housing, and environmental. Despite the criticisms of and problems with suburbia the idea(l) of the suburban dream prevails as metropolitanism expands. This points to the metropolitan region constituting a brutopianscape.

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De Vidovich, Lorenzo, and Yannis Tzaninis. "Emerging Post-Suburban Blendscapes in Metropolitan Milan and Amsterdam: Comparing Pioltello and Almere." Built Environment 49, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.49.1.75.

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European peripheries and suburbs are generally seen by scholars and policy experts as part of a polycentric urban-regional network. This conceptually 'cityist' and methodologically 'urbano-centric' narrative often neglects the dynamics that may emanate from and within the periphery itself instead of cities alone. This paper engages with the history, possibilities, and transformative potential of European urban peripheries in their own right. It does this by employing the idea of 'post-suburbia'. On the one hand, the concept of 'post-suburbia' is relatively open and flexible, thus helpful in disclosing novel peripheral conditions and contexts. On the other hand, it captures the relevant places and dynamics of metropolitan integration and the consolidation of regional networks in metropolitan space. First, the paper demonstrates how post-World War II European suburbanization has culminated in diverse, uneven post-suburban landscapes in the urban regions of Milan and Amsterdam, and specifically in Pioltello and Almere respectively. Second, the paper shows the nuances of socio-spatial transformations that have emerged in these two suburban peripheries, as an outcome of suburbanization. This twofold reflection enables post-suburbia as a valuable perspective that can unpack the diversities and complexities of urban regions under constant transformation by accounting for processes of diversification resulting in suburban 'blendscapes'.

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Stahl, Kenneth A. "Equality and Closure: The Paradox of Local Citizenship." Fall 2020 Symposium Edition 8, no. 1 (December 2021): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/jpl.v8.i1.3.

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In Bourgeois Utopias, a cultural history of suburbia in America, Robert Fishman states the fundamental paradox about the suburbs: “[H]ow can a form based on the principle of exclusion include every-one?” The promise of the American suburb was that every middle-class family would be able to own a home with a yard, but this egalitarian ideal was illusory because what made the suburbs appealing was precisely what it excluded, namely everything having to do with the city—its congestion, political corruption, and most importantly, its racial diversity. And so, as suburbia was mass-produced and made avail-able with cheap low-interest loans to white middle-class families, racial minorities were rigidly excluded. Although several waves of demographic change have reshaped the suburbs over the generations, this paradox remains evident today. Suburbs are becoming more dense and more diverse as many minorities have migrated from “inner cities” toward first-ring suburbs, and immigrants have found welcoming enclaves in the suburbs. But while suburbs have grown more diverse, they have also grown more segregated. High opportunity suburbs with plentiful jobs and good schools mandate low-density sprawl through zoning regulations, like mini-mum lot size and floor area requirements, parking mandates, and set-backs, that have the cumulative effect of making housing scarce and expensive. Only the very affluent or those lucky enough to have purchased a home years ago are welcome in these places. Racial minorities who, thanks to the earlier generation of suburban exclusion, have not had the opportunity to build the inter-generational wealth that is often a prerequisite to purchasing a home in the suburbs still find themselves locked out of the most desirable communities. The infra-structure of suburban communities, such as roads, sewers, and schools, are designed, perhaps deliberately, to completely collapse if the number of users increases by even a small amount, so these communities fiercely oppose any efforts to densify and permit more housing. Even modest attempts at densification are treated as calls to destroy suburban neighborhoods. But because our society has made a decision, undoubtedly questionable in retrospect, to treat suburban homeownership as the central tool for wealth building in this country, we cannot hope to meet our national aspirations for equality without opening up our suburbs to more housing. And so the question re-mains—how can a form based on the principle of exclusion include everyone?

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Stringer, Ben, and Jane McAllister. "Angels of suburbia." Architectural Research Quarterly 12, no. 3-4 (December 2008): 249–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135508001176.

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Suburbia is dependent on a global economy but, in spite of this, suburban domesticity in the UK is still very often framed within images of the ‘local’ whereas other parts of suburbia, such as business parks and airports, seem to embrace globalisation through sleek, high-tech, ‘non-place’ aesthetics that seem to eschew the local. The way that these aesthetic differences polarise local and global imagery within suburbia is questionable.

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Phelps, Nicholas A., and Andrew M. Wood. "The New Post-suburban Politics?" Urban Studies 48, no. 12 (August 9, 2011): 2591–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098011411944.

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Settlements variously termed ‘ex-urbs’, ‘edge cities’, ‘technoburbs’ are taken to signal something different from suburbia and as a consequence might be considered post-suburban. Existing literature has focused on defining post-suburbia as a new era and as a new form of settlement space. Whether post-suburbia can also be delimited in terms of its distinctive politics is the open question explored here. The paper begins by considering the need to make urban political theory more tailored to the different settlements that populate the heavily urbanised regions of nations. The paper stresses the structural properties of capitalism that generate differences within the unity of the urbanisation process. It then discusses what is new about a class of post-suburban settlements, concentrating on what the increasing economic gravity of post-suburbia, the difficulty of bounding post-suburban communities and the continuing role of the state imply for understanding urban politics and the reformulation of urban political theory.

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Sadewo, Erie, Ibnu Syabri, and Pradono Pradono. "Post-suburbia dan Tantangan Pembangunan di Kawasan Pinggiran Metropolitan: Suatu Tinjauan Literatur." Majalah Geografi Indonesia 32, no. 2 (September 30, 2018): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/mgi.32097.

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Post-suburbia merupakan fenomena transformasi perkotaan yang banyak ditemui di berbagai tempat. Fenomena ini terjadi sejalan dengan proses dekonsentrasi dan desentralisasi pekerjaan ke kawasan suburban yang menyusul populasi, sehingga menjadikan pusat kota kehilangan pengaruhnya. Tulisan ini dimaksudkan sebagai tinjauan terhadap berbagai literatur mengenai diskursus post-suburban dari sudut pandang filosofis. Selain itu, diberikan juga konteks perkembangannya di Indonesia, serta tantangan yang dihadapi oleh riset mengenai post-suburban kedepannya. Yaitu terkait dengan keberlanjutan perkotaan, apakah post-suburbia menghasilkan pembangunan yang tidak saja lebih ramah lingkungan, namun juga lebih baik secara ekonomi maupun sosial.ABSTRACT Post-suburbia is a well spread urban transformation phenomenon which could be seen in many places. This phenomenon occurs along with the employment deconcentration and decentralization process following the population towards the suburban area. Such a process makes the urban core losing its influence. This paper aimed as a literature review of post-suburban discourse from a philosophical perspective. Moreover, we also discuss its development in the Indonesian context and several possibilities of its research challenge in the future. Such as its relation with urban sustainability, whether post-suburbia would produce more not only environmental friendly development but also in economic and social aspect.

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Williams, Matthew. "Suburbia: social and spatial trends that emerged in Celtic Tiger Ireland." Chimera 26, no. 2012/2013 (September 11, 2013): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/chimera.26.7.

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Long after the roar of the “Celtic Tiger” has become inaudible; its effects remain in the form of ghost estates, incomplete rural development and inadequate service provision across the Irish landscape. This paper will give a brief account of suburban housing development in Ireland as a whole, followed by a detailed discussion of development in a specific Irish case study, Clerihan, Co. Tipperary. Through the analysis of data produced from resident questionnaires, an evaluation and discussion of the key motivations of Clerihan’s “Celtic Tiger” in-migrants shall emerge for the purpose of comparison with international suburban migration incentives. These incentives shall be addressed under four overarching themes; suburbia as an idyllic space and place, suburbia as an exclusive community while maintaining previous social networks, suburbia as a product of social and economic competition, and suburbia as an interdependent product of transport availability.

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Oliver, Kelly. "Tiny Leaf Men and Other Tales From Outer Suburbia: Re-Presenting the Suburb in Australian Children’s Literature." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2011vol21no1art1140.

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This paper explores how, through word and image, Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia challenges stereotypical representations of the suburban. Typically, suburban spaces have been represented as aesthetically bland, mundane, and ornamental. Tan takes these tropes and ironically re-deploys them anew, and in doing so undermines anti-suburban sentiment, which has dominated Australian literary and popular culture. Although the notion of anti-suburbanism in Australian fiction has been well documented, its presence in children’s literature has received far less attention. As a case study, Tales From Outer Suburbia, signals the ability of children’s literature to present more positive representations of suburbia because of its inherent commitment to the socialisation of children, which is prioritised over the tradition of anti-suburbanism.

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Onusko, James. "Childhood in Calgary’s Postwar Suburbs: Kids, Bullets, and Boom, 1950–1965." Articles 43, no. 2 (June 23, 2015): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1031288ar.

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Suburban living has become the definitive housing choice for a large majority of North Americans since the end of the Second World War. A longstanding image of the postwar suburbs highlights a stable and undifferentiated experience for young Canadians. Much of the popular and scholarly literature on these spaces tends to portray them as exclusively middle class, homogeneous, conformist, conservative, and alienating. While Canadian suburbia has appeared similar in outward appearance, increasingly more so in the postwar era, this has not necessarily meant that the suburbs have created total homogenization in the built environment, lifestyles, attitudes, and values of their inhabitants. Suburbs embody substantial economic, political, and cultural power in North America. In the past two decades a more nuanced response from academics on suburbia has emerged, in that some diversity, on several levels, is now noted. This article builds on this alternate view. I argue that young suburbanites were exposed to aggressive imagery, discursive constructs, and everyday practices in an attempt to discipline them for possible military service, ongoing participation in civilian defence, and that they internalized much of this. The resulting general atmosphere prepared them to engage “enemies,” under the auspices of the Cold War that lay both within, and outside, postwar childhood spaces. Evidence is based on oral histories, images produced for children, newspaper editorials, and the school-based literature and art that suburban students created.

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Anacker, Katrin B. "City suburbs: Placing suburbia in a post-suburban world, by Alan Mace." Journal of Urban Affairs 39, no. 3 (March 27, 2017): 465–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12241.

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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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Flew, Terry, Mark Gibson, Christy Collis, and Emma Felton. "Creative suburbia: Cultural research and suburban geographies." International Journal of Cultural Studies 15, no. 3 (April 27, 2012): 199–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877911433755.

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Wiese, Andrew. "Suburbia." Journal of Urban History 23, no. 6 (September 1997): 750–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009614429702300605.

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Perkova, A., N. Ivankina, and K. Smirnov. "OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATION OF SUBURBIA IN BELGOROD REGION." Technical Aesthetics and Design Research 3, no. 1 (May 21, 2021): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.34031/2687-0878-2021-3-1-61-71.

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The development of urban agglomerations as one of the most important urbanization processes in the modern world was considered. The economic expansion, as well as the increase in the motorization level in the middle of the 20th century, changed the vector of urban development from a vertical to a horizontal direction. This direction is also typical for the Belgorod region. The specificity of the development of the Belgorod suburbia is the massifs of individual residential buildings form a dense ring around the center of the region - Belgorod city. Statistical data that characterize the development of social infrastructure (general education and medical institutions), as well as transport infrastructure, were analyzed. It was revealed that in the emerging microdistricts of the suburbias, the transport, social and cultural infrastructure is not fully developed. It was shown that the reorganization of the transport infrastructure of the Belgorod suburbia should include some actions. One of them is the organization of transport interchange hubs as elements of transport infrastructure that can significantly change the current situation: to relieve roads, reduce car commuting, and provide people with the opportunity to comfortably transfer from one mode of transport to another. The organization of transport hubs will allow organizing a comfortable living environment for the population living in the agglomerated Belgorod suburban areas and reduce the load on the city's transport network.

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MOORE, JAMES. "Making Cairo modern? Innovation, urban form and the development of suburbia, c. 1880–1922." Urban History 41, no. 1 (July 29, 2013): 81–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392681300028x.

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ABSTRACT:Cairo has often been seen as a ‘dual city’ divided between a ‘modern’ European city and a historic ‘traditional’ core. This article challenges this view through a historical exploration of suburban Cairo, a subject neglected by mainstream urban historians. A comparative examination of Ismailiyah, Garden City, Zamalek, Maadi, Helwan and Heliopolis illustrates that these suburbs took very different forms and reflected a wide range of historical and contemporary architectural tastes and design perspectives. Not all suburban developments were products of modern technical innovations and by 1922 no suburb had a majority of European residents. The use of the term ‘modern’ to characterize Cairo's suburbs therefore has the tendency to privilege western concepts of the modern and obscure the complexities of suburban social and economic development.

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Ekers, Michael, Pierre Hamel, and Roger Keil. "Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance." Regional Studies 46, no. 3 (March 2012): 405–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2012.658036.

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Karimi, Kayvan. "Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs." Journal of Urban Design 18, no. 1 (February 2013): 168–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2012.705778.

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Banash, David, and Anthony Enns. "Introduction: Suburbia." Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (2003): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/2168-569x.1029.

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Churakov, S. K. "“Soviet suburbia”." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 740, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 012003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/740/1/012003.

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Raczka, Robert. "Irradiating Suburbia." Afterimage 20, no. 10 (May 1, 1993): 15–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aft.1993.20.10.15.

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Wilson, Rachel J. "Centering Suburbia." American Journal of Public Health 93, no. 9 (September 2003): 1416–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.93.9.1416.

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Sharpe, William, and Leonard Wallock. "Contextualizing Suburbia." American Quarterly 46, no. 1 (March 1994): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2713354.

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Hanchett, Thomas W. "Financing Suburbia." Journal of Urban History 26, no. 3 (March 2000): 312–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009614420002600302.

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Mayer, Harold M. "Chicago Suburbia." Journal of Urban History 17, no. 4 (August 1991): 421–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009614429101700405.

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Clark, George E. "Unsustainable Suburbia." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 49, no. 8 (October 2007): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/envt.49.8.3-5.

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Flajšar, Jiří. "Suburban Identity in the Poetry of John Updike." Prague Journal of English Studies 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2019-0003.

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Abstract This paper provides a close reading of a representative selection of suburban poems by the American writer John Updike (1932–2009). It also draws upon the existing scholarship by suburban studies historians (including Kenneth Jackson, Dolores Hayden, John Archer, and James Howard Kunstler), who have argued for the cultural importance of American suburbia in fostering identity, and develops the argument by literary critics including Jo Gill, Peter Monacell, and Robert von Hallberg, who have championed the existence of a viable suburban tradition in postwar American poetry. By scrutinizing poems from Updike’s early poetry, represented by “Shillington”, up to his closing lyric opus, “Endpoint”, the paper argues that Updike’s unrecognized importance is that of a major postwar poet whose lyric work chronicles, in memorable, diverse, and important ways, the construction of individual identity within suburbia, in a dominant setting for most Americans from the 1950s up to the present.

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Nicolaides, Becky M., and James Zarsadiaz. "Design Assimilation in Suburbia." Journal of Urban History 43, no. 2 (August 3, 2016): 332–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144215610773.

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Ethnic suburban settlement has shaped suburban landscapes in contrasting ways. On one end are ethnoburbs, where ethnic groups used spatial politics to assert their rights of ethnic expression in the landscape. On the other—less noticed—end are places where ethnic settlers arrived en masse, and their presence was scarcely visible. This article focuses on the latter, towns where ethnic suburbanites consented to existing design mores—what we term design assimilation. Using case studies from Asian American suburbs of the west and east San Gabriel Valley, we explore the history of places where Anglo design aesthetics persisted in the midst of profound demographic change. Multiple factors created and protected these landscapes, including stringent regulatory cultures of these suburbs, white political action, accommodations by builders, and Asian American consent. Asian suburbanites supported these landscapes for aesthetic, nostalgic, political, and economic reasons, including the belief that American landscape aesthetics conveyed a social distinction that positioned them above those around them—including other Asians in the ethnoburbs. Our work shows how suburban advantage has been reinforced by new waves of immigrant suburbanites, in ways that reflect the inequities and spatial expression of globalization itself. This work offers a new perspective on immigrant suburbanization and its interface with suburban “landscapes of privilege.”

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Keil, Roger. "After Suburbia: research and action in the suburban century." Urban Geography 41, no. 1 (November 22, 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1548828.

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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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Friedman, Avi. "Farming in Suburbia." Open House International 32, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2007-b0002.

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Once considered the ‘last frontier’, post World War II perception of a limitless North American landscape directed development into country lands. Even an apparently boundless landscape, however, had a limit. This became increasingly clear in the second half of the 20th century as suburban sprawl covered over once-fertile agricultural lands. Ecological, environmental, and social relations were negatively affected by the new residential planning pattern. Yet, positive changes can still be brought about, especially in the suburbs that border cultivated areas. This paper outlines the processes necessary for the development of sustainable suburban agriculture that can be integrated into new communities. The concepts demonstrated here can reunite ecological, economical, and social factors, which are demonstrated in a "real" project design by a team headed by the author that supports farming in a suburban Montreal, Canada, setting.

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Al-Kodmany, Kheir. "New Suburbanism: Sustainable Spatial Patterns of Tall Buildings." Buildings 8, no. 9 (September 13, 2018): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings8090127.

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Much of the anticipated future growth in North America will occur in suburbia. The critical challenge that we will face is how to accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. While the past 50 years have been characterized by suburban sprawl and low-rise development, “suburban sustainability” is increasingly making its way into the planning and urban design policy realm. This research investigates the spatial patterns of tall buildings in 24 suburban communities of three different regions including, Washington, D.C., Miami, and Chicago. The study identifies 10 different spatial patterns that prevail in suburbia and provides a concise summary of these patterns and reflects on their spatial and urban design aspects. The research concludes that the Tall Buildings and Transit-Oriented-Development (TB-TOD) model, an urban design approach that refers to vertical mixed-use clusters centered on mass-transit nodes, is one of the sustainable options for large regions going forward. The paper also discusses the challenges to the TB-TOD model implementation, mainly limited transit lines and community resistance. It ends by offering directions for future research.

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HAWTHORN, RUTH. "Delinquent Dogs and the Molise Malaise: Negotiating Suburbia in John Fante's “My Dog Stupid”." Journal of American Studies 52, no. 3 (May 3, 2017): 766–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000408.

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This article explores ideas of suburban masculinity in “My Dog Stupid” (1986), a comic novella by the critically neglected novelist and screenwriter John Fante. Placing the text within the context of the twentieth-century suburban “canon,” I argue that Fante complicates and critiques the dystopian image of American suburbia that has dominated both fictional and sociological representations of this environment over the past seventy years.

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Rose, Mark H., and Barbara M. Kelly. "Suburbia Re-Examined." Technology and Culture 33, no. 1 (January 1992): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105842.

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Moore, Deborah Dash, and Barbara M. Kelly. "Suburbia Re-Examined." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22, no. 1 (1991): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/204598.

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Quinn, Dermot. "Distributism and Suburbia." Chesterton Review 19, no. 1 (1993): 132–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton199319131.

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Merelman, Richard M., and J. Eric Oliver. "Democracy in Suburbia." Contemporary Sociology 31, no. 6 (November 2002): 761. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3089981.

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Lyon, J. Larry, and Barbara M. Kelly. "Suburbia Re-examined." Contemporary Sociology 20, no. 1 (January 1991): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2072092.

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Marsh, Margaret, and Barbara M. Kelly. "Suburbia Re-examined." Journal of American History 77, no. 4 (March 1991): 1413. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2078380.

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Pike, Dyan, and Mark Salzman. "Absurd in Suburbia." English Journal 87, no. 1 (January 1998): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/822035.

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Milton, Edith, and Alice Hoffman. "Fantasies of Suburbia." Women's Review of Books 8, no. 3 (December 1, 1990): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20109675.

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Musil, Robert. "Globalized post-suburbia." Belgeo, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/belgeo.11718.

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Spence, Des. "Rocky in suburbia." BMJ 332, no. 7534 (January 19, 2006): 185.2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7534.185-a.

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Brown, Malcolm. "Faith in Suburbia." Contact 148, sup15 (January 2005): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13520806.2005.11759028.

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