Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function

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ISBN: 9780419220503 | 041922050X
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Copyright: 8/3/1999

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The subject of suburbanization is attracting growing interest across several disciplines. This unique survey has been drawn together by a multi-disciplinary team of specialists. The book lists historical and contemporary research with particular emphasis on the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa. It provides a broad overview that is both comparative and international in scope.

Contributors

Preface

xiii

Suburban Foundation, Form And Function

(31)

Richard Harris

Peter J. Larkham

Introduction

(1)

A Historiography of the Suburbs

(1)

Suburban Origins

(3)

Some Suburban Myths

(2)

Definitions: A Comparative View

(6)

National Etymologies: Current Usages

(1)

Suburbs and Culture

(2)

Suburban Form

(3)

The Structure of this Volume

(12)

Part one: early twentieth-century suburbs

British Suburban Taste, 1880-1939

(24)

Peter Newby

Mark Turner

The Consumption of Design

(6)

Educating the Consumer

(2)

Suburban Taste and Design Solutions

(9)

Suburbia for the Working Classes

(3)

Conclusion

(3)

British `Corporation Suburbia': The Changing Fortunes Of Norris Green, Liverpool

(20)

Richard Turkington

The Roots of Corporation Suburbia

(1)

Building Corporation Suburbia

(2)

The Role of Corporation Suburbia

(1)

Liverpool Corporation: Suburbanizing the Working Classes

(3)

Building Norris Green

(3)

The `Pioneers' of Norris Green

(1)

Settling Norris Green

(1)

The Transformation of Norris Green

(2)

Remaking Norris Green

(2)

The Future for Norris Green

(4)

England's Garden Suburbs: Development And Change

(15)

J. W. R. Whitehand

Christine M. H. Carr

The Origins of Garden Suburbs

(4)

Myths of Suburbia

(3)

Suburban Change

(6)

Conclusion

(2)

The Making Of American Suburbs, 1900-1950s: A Reconstruction

(20)

Richard Harris

Three Types of Suburbs

(4)

The Making of Suburbs

(6)

Developers, Builders and Suburbs

103

(1)

Discussion

104

(7)

Suburbs Of Desire: The Suburban Landscape Of Canadian Cities, c. 1900-1950

111

(35)

Larry McCann

Suburbs of Desire

112

(2)

Suburban Expansion before the First World War

114

(8)

Reforming the Suburban Landscape

122

(7)

Housing, Planning, and the Post-War Suburban Landscape

129

(8)

The Suburban Landscape in Perspective

137

(9)

Running Rings Around The City: North American Industrial Suburbs, 1850-1950

146

(22)

Robert Lewis

Identifying Industrial Suburbanization

147

(5)

Industrial Suburbs and Industrial Change

152

(4)

Industrial Suburbs, Land and Working-Class Suburbs

156

(3)

Industrial Suburbs, Infrastructures and Institutions

159

(1)

Types of Industrial Suburbs

160

(2)

Conclusion

162

(6)

Part two: later twentieth-century suburbs

What Women's Spaces? Women In Australian, British, Canadian And Us Suburbs

168

(19)

Veronica Strong-Boag

Isabel Dyck

Kim England

Louise Johnson

Characterizing `Suburban Studies': Missing Women

169

(2)

The Changing Context of Women's Lives, 1880s-1990s

171

(3)

Suburban Women in Transition-Similarities and Differences

174

(4)

Some Final Reflections

178

(9)

`Gloria Soame': The Spread Of Suburbia In Post-War Australia

187

(15)

Tony Dingle

Urban Demographics

188

(1)

The Rush to the Suburbs: Motives and Means

189

(3)

Shapes on the Ground

192

(4)

Fading Dreams

196

(6)

Making Edge City: Post-Suburban Development And Life On The Frontier In Southern California

202

(20)

Andrew E. G. Jonas

Organizing Governance, 1980-1984

205

(4)

In Pursuit of Growth, 1985-1991

209

(4)

Managing Crisis, 1992-1996

213

(3)

`Post-Suburban Idyll' or `Junkyard of Dreams'?

216

(6)

Understanding Suburbs As Historic Landscapes Through Preservation

222

(17)

David L. Ames

Parallels between Historic Preservation, Architectural History and the Suburban Academic Literature

223

(5)

Developing an Historic Context for the Evaluation of Historic Suburbs for the National Register of Historic Places

228

(2)

Defining Suburbs as Historic Physical Properties

230

(2)

Historic Themes and Chronological Periods of Suburbanization

232

(3)

Conclusion: The Gap between National Register Recognition and the Preservation or Conservation of Suburbs

235

(4)

Conservation And Management In UK Suburbs

239

(30)

Peter J. Larkham

Why Conserve Suburbs?

239

(7)

The System of Protection: Development Control and Conservation

246

(2)

The Scale and Nature of Change in English Suburbia

248

(2)

The Management of Suburban Change

250

(9)

Management in Suburban Conservation Areas

259

(5)

Conclusion: Conservation and Management-or Mis-Management

264

(5)

Index

269

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