Laura Vaughan (editor)

Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street

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Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth.

Anchored in the architectural research discipline of space syntax, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change, touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges, with a particular focus on suburban centres. Studies of the high street as a centre for social, economic and cultural exchange provide evidence for its critical role in sustaining local centres over time. Contributors from the architecture, urban design, geography, history and anthropology disciplines examine cases spanning Europe and around the Mediterranean.

By linking large-scale city mapping, urban design scale expositions of high street activity and local-scale ethnographies, the book underscores the need to consider suburban space on its own terms as a specific and complex field of social practice.

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Language

English

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Front Cover

Half title

Title page

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Plates

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Suburbs are as Old as the City Itself

Part A: Theoretical Preliminaries

Chapter 1: The Suburb and the City

I. Introduction

II. Suburban imaginations

III. The one-dimensional suburb

IV. Suburban trajectories

V. Suburban identities

VI. Suburban otherness

VII. Conclusion

Chapter 2: The High Street as a Morphological Event

I. Introduction

II. High street temporalities

III. Morphological history and morphological events

IV. High streets as network topoi

V. Conclusion

Part B: Suburban Centralities

Chapter 3: Suburban Continuity and Change

I. Introduction

II. The case studies

III. The London-wide context

IV. Spatial network evolution

V. Interventions in the network

VI. Conclusion

Chapter 4: Spatial Memory and Shifting Centrality

I. Introduction

II. Limassol’s urban development

III. Research methods

IV. Continuity and change

V. Shifting centrality

VI. Conclusion

Chapter 5: Street Quality, Street Life, Street Centrality

I. Introduction

II. Research methods

III. The case studies

IV. Street structure

V. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Beyond Lively Streets

I. Introduction

II. Research methods

III. Observing street life

IV. Street frontage analysis

V. Street network configuration

VI. Conclusion

Part C: High Street Diversity

Chapter 7: High Street Diversity

I. Introduction

II. Concepts of diversity

III. Land use diversity

IV. Movement interfaces

V. Building adaptability

VI. Conclusion

Chapter 8: High Street Transactions and Interactions

I. Introduction

II. The growth of Islington

III. Spatial configuration

IV. Life on the high street

V. High street transformations

VI. Conclusion

Case Study 1: High Street Productivity

I. Introduction

II. High street diversity

III. High street working life

IV. High street design

Case Study 2: High Streets and the Pedestrian Realm

I. Introduction

II. The pedestrian realm

III. High street urbanity

IV. Conclusion

Part D: Everyday Sociability

Chapter 9: Street Interaction and Social Inclusion

I. Introduction

II. Urban life and co-presence

III. Co-presence and interaction

IV. Segregation from urban life

V. Segregation from urban functions

VI. Conclusion

Chapter 10: Sociability and Ethnic Identity

I. Introduction

II. Immigrant clustering and suburbanisation

III. The Latino suburban hub

IV. Market sociality

V. Constituting social networks

VI. Language barriers

VII. Navigating space, bridging difference

VIII. Conclusion

Chapter 11: Being Suburban

I. Introduction

II. The image of the suburbs

III. Re-imagining suburbs

IV. Living in Seething, a place that is not a place

V. The Seething events

VI. After the event

VII. Local communities

VIII. Conclusion

Glossary of Space Syntax

References

Index

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