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The Freedoms of Suburbia
I’d like to recommend a new book that’s come out by Paul Barker: ‘The Freedoms of Suburbia‘. Many of the same themes that featured in Barker’s 1999 article Non-Plan Revis… more →
Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres
The Freedoms of Suburbia
suburbanite wrote 1 month ago: I’d like to recommend a new book that’s come out by Paul Barker: ‘The Freedoms of … more →
The New Outer London Commission
suburbanite wrote 10 months ago: I note the Outer London Commission has had its first meeting . The associated documents make for int … more →
The suburban town centre and its by-product activity
suburbanite wrote 12 months ago: We have for a while been discussing by-product activity in suburban town centres: the notion that a … more →
The diverse suburban town centre
suburbanite wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been looking at the photos from one of our suburban field trips and remembered that we … more →
The Sustainable Suburban High Street
mukih wrote 1 year ago: The review of Suburban High Streets has been published in Geography Compass today. The paper, titled … more →
The English predilection for houses on the ground
suburbanite wrote 1 year ago: I have just read the London Review of Books review of the reissue of a facsimile of The English Hous … more →
Unhappy suburbanites?
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suburbanite wrote 1 year ago: In an article previewing his recently published book, London voices, 1957-2007: From family and kins … more →
Suburban Town Centre Profiler
burbsblogger wrote 1 year ago: After a lot of hard work by all members of the project team, I am pleased to announce the Towards Su … more →
The bigger picture of the suburbs in the city
mukih wrote 1 year ago: A recent issue of Science is dedicated to ‘Cities’. The issue provides a very good conte … more →
Charles Booth on suburbs as places of leisure - and consumption
suburbanite wrote 1 year ago: Just noted in ‘Charles Booth’s London’: “Wherever a man may go to find his w … more →
The economic advantages of slow growth
suburbanite wrote 1 year ago: An article in a recent issue of Building Design (Edwards, M. (2007) Gateway to Disaster. Building De … more →
Mixed use and suburbs
suburbanite wrote 2 years ago: I recommend looking at a recently published report by Savills Research for the Prince’s Founda … more →
London's outer suburbs showing signs of 'urban blight'
SSTC project blogger wrote 2 years ago: A piece on BBC News London on 4th September [click for video report] suggested that London’s s … more →
Achieving a Suburban Renaissance
suburbanite wrote 2 years ago: I would like to draw everyone’s attention to the recently published report by Ben Kochan and t … more →
The need for adaptability in (sub)urban fabric - "the inevitability of change"
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suburbanite wrote 2 years ago: In a comment piece in the latest issue of Blueprint (June 2007), Alex Lifschutz highlights the impor … more →
Planning for a Sustainable Future - DCLG White Paper
mukih wrote 2 years ago: The new white paper from the department of Communities and Local Government is out today. Town Centr … more →
Jigsaw Cities?
suburbanite wrote 2 years ago: An interesting article in The Guardian last week on Sprawling Cities – presenting the findings … more →
BBC R4 'Analysis' - the social impact of increasing personal mobility 01/01/07
SSTC project blogger wrote 2 years ago: A thought provoking episode of BBC R4’s Analysis programme at the beginning of March has a gen … more →
Suburban 'ped sheds' could space syntax help make more of this concept?
SG wrote 3 years ago: The idea of a ‘ped-shed’ has been around for a while in the literature and is particular … more →
