Suburban Form: An International Perspective Book

Introduction. Theme 1. The Changing Form of Suburbs 1. Complexity and Contradiction in the Ageing Early Postwar Suburbs of Quebec City 2. Changes in the Morphologies of the Squatter Settlements of Rio de Janeiro 3. Community, Modernity and Urban Change in Japan and the US. Theme 2. Understanding the Elements and the Patterns 4. Making a Metropolitan Landscape: Coherent Change at the Periphery of Lyons, France 5. Radial Street as a Timeline 6. Clusters Compared: Post-World War Two Suburban Development Practices in King County, Washington and Dupage county, Illinois. Theme 3. The Effect of Planning 7. Suburban Morphology and Portland's Urban Growth Boundary 8. Building Types and Urban Fabric of Rome's Outer Suburbs: From Reading to Planning 9. Planning for Sprawl: The Evolution of a Suburban Shopping Center. Theme 4. The Reconstruction of the Suburbs 10. Transformation of Large-Scale Post-War Housing Areas in Sweden 11. Transformations of Space: Retrospective on Public Housing in Singapore 12. Conserving the English Suburb: Mechanisms, Tensions and Results. Index.