Metroburbia, USA - Rilegato

Knox, Paul L.

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ISBN 10: 0813543568 ISBN 13: 9780813543567

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

This accessible portrait of today's changing suburbs brings together statistical data, anecdotes, and social theory to provide a broad interpretation of the American metropolitan form and looks at the different influences that contribute to where and how we live today. Simultaneous.

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L'autore:

Paul L. Knox is a university distinguished professor and senior fellow for international advancement at Virginia Tech University. Between 1997 and 2006 he served as dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. He is also a member of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning and has written many books, including Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography.

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Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America’s metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of “metroburbia”—fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristics.

Upper-middle-class Americans are moving into larger homes in greater numbers, which leads Knox to explore the relationship between built form and material culture in contemporary society. He covers changes in home design, real estate, the work of developers, and the changing wishes of consumers. Knox shows that contemporary suburban landscapes are a product of consumer demand, combined with the logic of real estate development, mediated by design and policy professionals and institutions of governance. Suburban landscapes not only echo the fortunes of successive generations of inhabitants, Knox argues, they also reflect the country’s changing core values.

Knox addresses key areas of concern and importance to today’s urban planners and suburban residents including McMansions, traffic disasters, house design, homeowner’s associations, exclusionary politics, and big box stores. Through the inclusion of examples and photos, Metroburbia, USA creates an accessible portrait of today’s suburbs supported by data, anecdotes, and social theory. It is a broad interpretation of the American metropolitan form that looks carefully at the different influences that contribute to where and how we live today.

·Up-to-date interpretation of American metropolitan form

·Brings together data, anecdote, and analysis in an accessible style that is informed by social theory

·Broad in scope, bringing together the influence of planners, developers, builders, consumers, architects, and public institutions

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• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813543568
• ISBN 13: 9780813543567
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 231