Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function (Planning, by Richard Harris,Peter Larkham

By Richard Harris,Peter Larkham

The editors and members to this quantity reveal how suburbs and the that means of suburbanism swap either with time and geographical location.
Here the disciplines of historical past, geography and sociology, including subdisciplines as varied as gender reviews, paintings historical past and concrete morphology, are introduced jointly to bare the character of suburbia from the 19th century to the current day.

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