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

• Autore: Forsyth Ann <1963, >
• Pubblicazione: Australia : , : Gordon and Breach Publishers, an imprint of Overseas Publishers Association, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76; 711.58
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Growth; City planning; Suburbs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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 WithdrawalCHAPTER SIX Urban Development and the Power of Ideas; Abbreviations; Chronology; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late-1960s to the mid-1990s, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing suburbs
• ISBN: 1-135-30010-0; 1-135-30011-9; 1-280-14641-9; 9786610146413; 0-203-98526-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348240303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cities and regions ; ; v. 2.