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1 online resource |
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Global suburbanisms |
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Global suburbanisms.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Naming Process; 3 "Suburb Is Not a Rude Word in Australia": A Lexical History; 4 Doubts about "Suburbs" in Canada; 5 Defining Peripheral Places in Quebec: A Review of Key Planning Reports and the Media, 1960-2012; 6 Bombay's Urban Edge: Villages, Suburbs, Slums, and the Expanding City; 7 Kampungs, Buitenwijken, and Kota Mandiri: Naming the Urban Fringe on Java, Indonesia; 8 From Favela to Comunidade, and Beyond:The Taming of Rio de Janeiro |
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9 Naming Rome's Edge: Cultural and Political Representations of the Borgata10 Naming Madrid's Working-Class Periphery, 1860-1970: The Construction of Urban Illegitimacy; 11 To Name or Not to Name: Contradictions in Naming Processes of One Bucharest District; 12 Some Reflections on Comparing (Post- )Suburbs in the United States and France; 13 Périurbain, from Woes to Words: Political and Social Uses of a New Administrative Category; 14 The New Neighbourhoods: The Discursive (and Other) Transformation of South Sofia's Modest Beginnings |
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15 Lost in Translation: Names, Meanings, and Development Strategies of Beijing's Periphery16 Concluding Suggestions; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
In What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Suburbs -- Developing countries
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Suburbs -- Developed countries
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
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Suburbs
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Developed countries
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harris, Richard, 1952- editor.
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Vorms, Charlotte, editor
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| ISBN |
9781442620643 |
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1442620641 |
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