Approaching a Global Phenomenon
Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it's the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and public transportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this question requires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct local characteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this path, Variations of Suburbanism explores formation, characteristics, and trends of suburban areas all over the world. It provides insights on common features and differences of suburban governance, design, and infrastructure and discusses strategies to understand and design suburban areas in an increasingly sub-urbanizing world.
Herausgeber: Barbara Schönig
Verlag: IBIDEM publishers Stuttgart, 2015
Autoren:
Sigrun Langner: Mapping Urban Landscapes. Between understanding, interpreting and negotiating
Jan Polívka: Challenge of maturation. Life cycles and patterns of change in suburban settlement space
Stefanie Bremer: Designing suburban infrastructure. The A 40/ B1 Bochum
Johanna Schlaack: Airport (Sub)Urbia. Transforming Berlin Brandenburg’s periphery
Arvid Krüger: Unfinished suburbanization. Leipzig between Suburbia, Creative City and Shrinking
Elodie Vittu: A Big Gamble for "Greater Paris"
Holger Gladys: Don’t trust the idyll. Meritorious objectives and arguable substance in Dutch suburbia.
Iana Korolova, Ion Alexandru Retegan, Iana Samakaeva: The dynamics of the Eastern European suburbs. Kazan, Kyiv and Bucharest
Carlos Grezzi, Monica Ramé, Christian Terreno, Regina Vidosa: Suburban development in Argentina: a historical overview and the current trends. The case of Cordoba
Mazen Alazazmeh: Geographics of suburban transformations. The case of Amman, Jordan
Priyambada Das, Vaishali Anavatti Satyamurthy: Changing Face of Suburbia. A Narrative of Indian Cities
288 Pages | Paperback.
ISBN 978-3-8382-0619-6
ISSN 2191-0472