Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street
Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street by Professor Laura Vaughan
English | Nov. 1, 2015 | ISBN: 191063414X | 376 Pages | PDF | 39 MB
English | Nov. 1, 2015 | ISBN: 191063414X | 376 Pages | PDF | 39 MB
In recent years there has been much debate within urban studies as to which came first in the evolution of human settlements, the countryside or the city. There was always a third context to this discussion, however, and that was the suburb. Life beyond the city walls was a distinctive feature of ancient urban civilisations from Persia to Minoan Crete, and today in the Anglophone world the suburban population is a majority. How surprising, then, that few scholars have attempted to understand the nature and agency of suburban living as a dominant characteristic of human settlements. This was symptomatic of a wider academic indifference and even hostility towards ‘the suburban’ which has only (ridiculously) recently been challenged by a new generation of scholars who take suburbs seriously.