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Antisuburban orthodoxy permeates much of the literature on US urban life & the status of suburbia, & presents suburbanites as affluent conformists trying to avoid responsibility for the problems of the central city. Here, biases of antisuburban scholars in their discussion of urban & suburban economics, classes, races, & politics are identified, & it is argued that "suburb-bashing" serves the political values of nonacademics & academics alike. In What, Me Hate the Suburbs? The Irrelevance of Anti-Suburban Orthodoxy, Max Neiman (U of California, Riverside) agrees that some scholars remain antisuburban, but insists that more contemporary treatments are more balanced, recognizing that the diversity of current suburbs renders blanket criticism of suburbia antiquated. In Blaming the Suburbs?, John R. Logan (State U of New York, Albany) contends that Hawkins & Perry have not presented any evidence to support their accusations that suburb-bashing is the predominant theme of urban research, nor any criteria by which others could evaluate urban researchers for their alleged biases against suburbs. The affluent, white, middle-class suburb is a myth that no one believes in anymore. In Rejoinder to Neiman and Logan Hawkins & Percy contend that the effects of antisuburban orthodoxy still persist, & central cities have yet to be examined under the same scrutiny applied to suburbs. 66 References. M. Pflum

Recent social scientific literature reports both a resurgence of ethnic consciousness & a continuing decline in ethnicity with time & succeeding generations. These claims are tested, utilizing in-home questionnaire interview data from residents of two suburbs of Providence, RI -- 132 in a homogeneously Italian-American suburb, & 128 in an ethnically heterogeneous suburb. Results support the theory of assimilation. 4 Tables. Modified HA.

Die Kulturlandschaft wird im Raumordnungsgesetz in § 2 Abs. 2 Nr. 5 ROG als Grundsatz
der Raumordnung aufgeführt, aus dem deutlich wird, dass die Kulturlandschaft sich im
Wesentlichen in zwei Grundtypen einteilen lässt: in eine "einfache" Kulturlandschaft,
welche als raumgliedernder Teilraum grundsätzlich zu erhalten und zu entwickeln ist,
und in eine kleinere, historisch geprägte und gewachsene Kulturlandschaft, welche in
ihren prägenden Merkmalen nur zu erhalten ist. Der kulturlandschaftliche Grundsatz
besitzt dabei mit seinem raumordnungsrechtlichen Erhaltungs- und Entwicklungsauftrag
trotz nicht unproblematischer Zuständigkeitsfragen ein beachtenswertes Potenzial, um
spezifischen Raumproblemen entgegenzutreten. Dies gilt auch für den suburbanen
Raum, der jedoch nach einer formaljuristischen Betrachtungsweise keine Besonderheiten
bzgl. der kulturlandschaftlichen Aufträge aufweist.

What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as "Lesser Los Angeles"-a global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's "nowhere"spaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Relocations -- 2. Relocating Queer Critique -- 3. Behind the Orange Curtain -- 4. Empire of My Familiar -- 5. The Light That Never Goes Out -- 6. Coda: Love among the Ruins -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as "Lesser Los Angeles"--A global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's "nowhere"spaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia

A review of Craig McGregor's Australian Son: Inside Mark Latham (Pluto Press, North Melbourne, 2004), Margaret Simons's Quarterly Essay: Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders (Black Inc., Melbourne, 2004) and Michael Duffy's Latham and Abbott (Random House Australia, Milson's Point, 2004).

ABSTRACT:In the 1960s and 1970s, the state-operated Maharashtra Housing Board and its successor organization Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) responded to Mumbai's exponential growth with what at the time was internationally considered to be the most effective measure to fight the housing shortage: large estates of standardized apartment blocks. In Mumbai's northern suburbs, housing compounds were built for designated income levels, such as Kannamwar Nagar and Sahyadri Nagar for the 'low-income group' and DN Nagar or Sahakar Nagar for the 'middle-income group'. This article argues that Mumbai's state-sponsored tower blocks adapted an internationally discussed urban design concept to specific local conditions. The designers took up influences from both local Maharashtrian and European housing typologies of the mid-twentieth century, including upper-class art deco apartments, socialist housing compounds and serially built working-class chawls. In contrast to mass housing developments in Chicago, Moscow or Paris, Mumbai's tower blocks were built individually rather than from prefabricated parts, offered rather high standards of living compared to that of the majority and, as a result, became increasingly inhabited by comparably wealthy groups. Since the beginning of economic liberalization in the 1990s, many have been converted into private co-operatives. Once designed to house the masses, they are now visible symbols for a growing minority that constitutes Mumbai's new middle class. At the same time, they are an example for the local evolution of the modernist housing block type that is only apparently similar all over the world.

A fractal environment can accommodate more small objects than expected because fresh small spaces come into play as the size of object diminishes. Could the built environment behave like this? To test this hypothesis the number of cars that could be parked in a street was estimated for different sizes of car. The results indicated that scaling does occur. This is as if space can be manufactured from nothing by designing at an appropriate scale. Countries such as Japan which have a small standard of personal space may in fact be larger than they seem on a map.