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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765701503321

Autore

Forsyth Ann

Titolo

Constructing suburbs : competing voices in a debate over urban growth / / Ann Forsyth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, May 1999

Florence, : Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]

ISBN

9786610146413

9781135300104

1135300100

9781135300111

1135300119

9781280146411

1280146419

9780203985267

0203985265

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Cities and regions: planning, policy and management

Classificazione

ARC008000ARC010000

Disciplina

307.76

711.58

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Growth

City planning

Suburbs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Big Projects in a Time of Uncertainty: Facing the Future in a Contemporary Urban Development; CHAPTER TWO Five Images of a Suburb: Competing Perspectives on the Economy, Environment, and Family Life; CHAPTER THREE Visual Rhetorics in Growth Debates: Sydney's Future as a Los Angeles, Toronto, or Canberra; CHAPTER FOUR  Formal Planning Processes: The Privileged Language of Professional Planning; CHAPTER FIVE Hard and Soft Privatization: Unequal Impacts of Government Withdrawal; CHAPTER SIX Urban Development and the



Power of Ideas; Abbreviations; Chronology; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation