Defining Suburbs

Item

Title
Defining Suburbs
Description
There is no consensus as to what exactly constitutes a suburb. This article examines the range of suburban definitions in terms of their structure and the topical issues that they grapple with. Suburbs have been defined according to many different dimensions from location and transportation modes to culture and physical appearance. Given this confusion, one approach is to abandon the term; another is to use it with greater precision. This is more than just an issue of semantics. Rather how people talk and think about suburbs shapes how they can see such areas being developed and redeveloped in the future.
Accepted Manuscript
Creator
Forsyth, Ann
Subject
design
land use
housing
planning history
planning practice
urban design
urban form
Publisher
Sage Publications
Date
2015-06-03T18:00:30Z
2012
2015-06-03T18:00:30Z
Type
Journal Article
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
Forsyth, Ann. 2012. Defining Suburbs. Journal of Planning Literature 27, no. 3: 270–281.
0885-4122
1552-6593
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:16139611
10.1177/0885412212448101
Language
en_US
Relation
doi:10.1177/0885412212448101
Journal of Planning Literature