Title & Author:

Still detached and subdivided? : Suburban ways of living in 21st century North America / Markus Moos, Robert Walter-Joseph (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2017]
©2017

Description:

141 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 21 x 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Forward--mapping the great suburbs of North America / Elvin Wyly -- 1 Suburban imaginaries. An atlas of suburbanisms -- 2 Defining suburbanisms. More continuity than change? / Markus Moos, Pablo Mendez, Liam McGuire, Elvin Wyly, Anna Kramer, Robert Walter-Joseph and Mark Williamson -- 3 Planning the North American suburb. The great (sub)urban transformation / Pierre Fillion -- 4 Mapping suburbanisms. The American dream : homeownership, single-family dwellings, and automobiles / Markus Moos and Pablo Mendez ; The diversity of suburban soundscape experiences / Sarah Godfrey and Jennifer Dean -- 5 Suburban futures. #ChangeSpace : planning suburban public space for youths / Christina Glass and Nicole Yang ; Exploring opportunities for intergenerational living on a suburban campus / Nicholas Deibler and Lucas Oldfield ; Aging in the suburbs / Samantha Biglieri and Jennifer Dean ; Suburban redesign, human scale / Luna Khirfan ; Local suburban agriculture / Virginia Hang and David Vanderwindt ; Heritage protection in the suburbs / Robert Shipley ; Autonomous vehicles : savior or sentinel of low-carbon suburban futures / Sarah Sinasac and Alexander "AJ" Wray.

Summary:

Mit diesem Buch bekommen die Leser die Chance, vier Stadtplaner bei ihren Arbeitssitzungen zu belauschen und so den Begriff "Suburbanismus" neu zu denken. Es handelt sich um fiktive Planer, deren Konzepte jedoch auf wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen basieren und deren Argumentation durch umfangreiches Kartenmaterial und Visualisierungen untermauert wird. Das Buch bietet eine gut zugängliche, detaillierte Darstellung des amerikanischen Phänomens "Vorstadt" als spezifischer Lebensstil, der zugleich in urbanen wie suburbanen Räumen zu finden ist. Dabei wird deutlich, dass politische Lösungen zu den Problemen des suburbanen Raums? wie etwa Zersiedlung? weit über den Ansatz hinausgehen müssen, Vorstädte nur als homogene Areale zu betrachten, die lediglich der Urbanisierung bedürfen.
In this book readers get to be flies on the walls during meetings of four planners, making us rethink what we thought we knew about suburbs. The planners are fictional, the concepts based on academic research, and the arguments substantiated by large amounts of data presented as visually stunning maps and data visualizations. The book offers an accessible yet rigorous account of "suburbanisms" as particular ways of living, demonstrating that aspects of this lifestyle occur simultaneously in urban and suburban places. The approach suggests that policy solutions to suburban problems such as sprawl need to move beyond treating suburbs as homogeneous places in need of urbanization.

ISBN:

9783868594577
3868594574

Subject:

Suburbs North America History 21st century.
City planning North America History 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Banlieues Amérique du Nord Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.
Suburbs.
human geography.
Suburban life North America History 21st century
North America.
Zone residenziali Pianificazione Periferie Canada [e] Stati Uniti d'America

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Moos, Markus, editor.
Walter-Joseph, Robert, editor.

Suburban ways of living in twenty-first century North America

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299405
Call No.: BIB 245495
Status: Available