Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function (Planning, History and Environment Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138991120 ISBN 13: 9781138991125

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.
Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Review:

"The book is a welcome contribution to the historiography of the suburbs, as each chapter is strong and well-written.."
-"Planning Perspectives, 2000
"Changing suburbs is a thoughful and interesting collection that brings together a wide range of work on the form of ordinary suburbs.."
-"APA Journal, 2001

About the Author:

Robert Harris was born in 1957, in Nottingham, England, and educated at Cambridge University. He graduated with an honors degree in English and joined the BBC, working as a researcher and director before becoming the BBC's youngest reporter on "Newsnight" in 1982. In 1987, he left television to become political editor of The Observer before joining the Sunday Times as a weekly columnist in 1989. He has since made several films for British television.
Harris is the author of five nonfiction books, three of which have been published in the United States: A Higher Form of Killing (1982), a history of chemical and biological warfare; Gotcha! (1983), a study of how the media covered the Falklands War; and Selling Hitler (1986), the story of the forged Hitler diaries scandal, which was made into a television miniseries. His first novel, Fatherland (1992), was the most successful first novel by a Bri tish author in the past twenty years and was published in 18 countries.
He lives near Hungerford, Berkshire with his wife and two children.

University of Central England

Robert Harris is the author of Enigma, Fatherland, and Archangel. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times. His novels have sold more than six million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and three children.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Richard Harris is a professor in the School of Geography and Geology at McMaster University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138991120
• ISBN 13: 9781138991125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Harris Richard