Economic revitalization : cases and strategies for city and suburb / by Fitzgerald, Joan, Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…Redefining the field of local economic development -- Sectoral development strategies for new and old industries -- Brownfield redevelopment for equitable community revitalization -- Industrial retention : multiple strategies for keeping manufacturing strong -- Commercial revitalization in central cities and older suburbs.…”
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Once the American dream : inner-ring suburbs of the metropolitan United States / by Hanlon, Bernadette, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Once the American dream -- Decline is a new suburban reality -- Defining inner-ring suburbs -- Forces shaping inner-ring suburbs -- Sidestepping inner-ring suburbs -- Declining inner-ring suburbs -- Suburbs in crisis -- Different types of inner-ring suburbs -- Fixing inner-ring suburbs -- Conclusion.…”
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Wonder Garden. by Acampora, Lauren

Subjects: “…Suburbs Fiction.…”
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Suburban governance : a global view by Hamel, Pierre, 1947-, Keil, Roger, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Governing the Postcolonial Suburbs / Ananya Roy -- Conclusion: Suburban Governance: Convergent and Divergent Dynamics / Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel.…”
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Beyond the city and the bridge : East Asian immigration in a New Jersey suburb / by Matsumoto, Noriko, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Globalizing suburbia -- A town of immigrants -- Community and communities -- Strategies of assimilation and distinction -- Accommodating "others" -- Remaking Asian ethnicity in suburbia -- Reconsidering assimilation and ethnicity in the American suburb.…”
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Confronting Suburbanization : Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe. by Stanilov, Kiril

Table of Contents: “…Residential suburbanization: Patterns, processes, and factorsNonresidential suburbanization; Suburbanization and suburban agriculture; A Complex Assessment of Patterns and Processes; Regional Governance: General Framework and Protagonists; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Prague: Urban Growth and Regional Sprawl; Introduction; A Historical Account of Urbanization and Suburbanization in Prague; The Housing Boom: Compact City and Suburban Sprawl; Population Redistribution: Changing the Balance between Core and Suburbs; Nonresidential Growth and Suburban Jobs.…”
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Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia : Green Sprawl. by Cadieux, Kirsten Valentine

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Suburbanization in global society

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : suburbanization in global society / Mark Clapson, Ray Hutchison -- Meaningful types in a world of suburbs / Richard Harris -- Gwinnett goes global : the changing image of American suburbia / William Grady Holt -- From mill towns to 'burbs of the burgh' : suburban strategies in the post-industrial metropolis / Allen Dieterich-Ward -- Cities, suburbs and metropolitan areas : governing the regionalised city / Tassilo Herrschel -- Urbanity beyond nostalgia : discovering public life at the edge of the city of Rome / Sandra Annunziata and Mara Cossu -- Identity, marginalization, and Parisian banlieues / Jean Beaman -- The life cycle of Johannesburg suburbs / Eric Petersen -- Suburban reinvestment through 'knockdown rebuild' in Sydney / Simon Pinnegar, Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph -- Changing urbanization patterns in the Brazilian metropolis / Suzana Pasternak, Lucia Maria Machado Bógus -- Governing heterogeneity in the context of 'compulsory Closeness' : the 'pacification' of favelas / Leticia Veloso -- The changing image of suburban areas in Latin America and the role of the local government / Sonia Roitman -- The planned suburbanization of a city-state : Singapore's new towns / Rita Padawangi -- Building for what and whom? …”
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Sunday morning. The fast draw [wildlife]

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Boomburbs : the rise of America's accidental cities by Lang, Robert, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Legoland -- From settlements to super suburbs -- Who live in the boomburbs -- The business of boomburbs -- Big skies, small lots : boomburb housing and master-planned development -- The small town politics of big cities -- Boomburbs at buildout -- Emerging urban realms and the boomburbs of 2030.…”
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Metroburbia, USA by Knox, Paul L.

Subjects: “…Suburbs United States.…”
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Transport for suburbia : beyond the automobile age by Mees, Paul, 1961-

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Red lines, black spaces : the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb / by Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-

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Red lines, black spaces : the politics of race and space in a Black middle-class suburb / by Haynes, Bruce D., 1960-

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The New Suburbanites : Race and Housing in the Suburbs. by Lake, Robert W.

Table of Contents: “…PROCESS:THE SUBURBAN BLACK EXPERIENCE; 5 THE CASE STUDY SETTING: FIVE COMMUNITIES; Introduction; Teaneck Township: Managing Integration; Montclair: Affluent Suburb; Franklin Township: White Defensiveness.…”
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When America became suburban by Beauregard, Robert A.

Subjects: “…Suburbs United States History.…”
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Making suburbia : new histories of everyday America

Table of Contents: “…: the preservation debate in Denver's postwar suburbs / Heather Bailey -- Yards and everyday life in Minneapolis / Ursula Lang -- Suburban rhetorics: planning and design for American shopping, 1930-1960 / David Smiley -- This old house of the future: remixing progress and nostalgia in suburban domestic design / Holley Wlodarczyk -- Everyday racialization: contesting space and identity in suburban St. …”
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Designing suburban futures : new models from build a better burb by Williamson, June

Subjects: “…Suburbs United States Planning.…”
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Old Europe, new suburbanization? : governance, land, and infrastructure in European suburbanization

Table of Contents: “…Suburbs as Stories of Time and Space; 5 Ideology, Planning, and Meaning in Suburbia: Investigating the Case of Row House Areas; 6 The Changing Face of Athens: Development Pressures in the Maroussi and Kifissia Suburbs.…”
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America by the numbers with Maria Hinojosa. Our private Idaho

Subjects: “…Suburbs Idaho Coeur d'Alene.…”
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Suburban affiliations : social relations in the greater Dublin area by Corcoran, Mary P.

Table of Contents: “…The significance of suburbs -- Suburban formation : the case of Dublin -- Suburbs and the life course -- Suburban pastoralism and sense of place -- Linked lives : personal communities in the suburbs -- Family-friendly communities? …”
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Built in Boston : city and suburb, 1800-1950 / by Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 1941-

Voyages : from Tongan villages to American suburbs / by Small, Cathy

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The green city : sustainable homes, sustainable suburbs /

Table of Contents: “…-- Sustainable homes and suburbs -- Nature in the city -- Sustainable workplaces -- Sustainable transport -- Making the city green -- Green-shaded cities.…”
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Plan sexenal

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Sequel to suburbia : glimpses of America's post-suburban future by Phelps, N. A. (Nicholas A.)

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Locating Post-Suburbs in a Metropolitan Context -- 3 The Suburbs and Their Contradictions -- 4 Politics and the Private and Collective Dynamics of America's Post-Suburban Future -- 5 Kendall Downtown -- 6 Taming Tysons -- 7 Schaumburg -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Series List -- Index.…”
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Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States by Jackson, Kenneth T.

Table of Contents: “…Suburbs as slums -- Transportation revolution and the erosion of the walking city -- Home, sweet home: the house and the yard -- Romantic suburbs -- Main line: elite suburbs and commuter railroads -- Time of the trolley -- Affordable homes for the common man -- Suburbs into neighborhoods: the rise and fall of municipal annexation -- New age of automobility -- Suburban development between the wars -- Federal subsidy and the suburban dream: how Washington changed the American housing market -- Cost of good intentions: the ghettoization of public housing in the United States -- Baby boom and the age of the subdivision -- Drive-in culture of contemporary America -- Loss of community in metropolitan America -- Retrospect and prospect.…”
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The France of the little-middles : a suburban housing development in greater Paris by Cartier, Marie, Coutant, Isabelle, Masclet, Olivier, Siblot, Yasmine

Subjects: “…Suburbs France Gonesse.…”
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Enabling solutions for sustainable living : a workshop

Subjects: “…Suburbs Environmental aspects.…”
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Suburban Sprawl : Private Decisions and Public Policy. by Wiewel, Wim

Subjects: “…Suburbs Illinois Chicago Metropolitan Area.…”
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How cities work : suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken / by Marshall, Alex, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two towns : Kissimmee versus Celebration and the new urbanism -- The end of place -- The deconstructed city : the silicon valley -- Trading places : the city and the suburb -- Jackson Heights : an anachronism finds its way -- The master hand : the role of government in building cities -- Portland and Oregon : taming the forces that create the modern metropolitan area -- No place called home : community at the millennium -- Getting there : building healthy cities.…”
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The fight for local control : schools, suburbs, and American democracy / by Scribner, Campbell F., 1981-

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Knocking on the door : the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs / by Bonastia, Christopher, 1967-

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Highland Park and River Oaks : the origins of garden suburban community planning in Texas by Ferguson, Cheryl Caldwell, 1953-

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Tony Brown's Journal. The Future of Urban America : Problems And Solutions

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Bourgeois nightmares : suburbia, 1870-1930 by Fogelson, Robert M.

Subjects: “…Suburbs United States History.…”
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Urbanization beyond Municipal Boundaries : Nurturing Metropolitan Economies and Connecting Peri-Urban Areas in India. by Bank, The World

Table of Contents: “…C1; C2; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Overview; People and Businesses Are Seeking Metropolitan Suburbs; Land Policy Distortions and Infrastructure Shortfalls Reduce Gains from Urbanization; Figures; Figure O.1 Employment Growth in Metropolitan Cores and Peripheries by Sector, 1998-2005; Coordinating Land Policy Reforms with Infrastructure Improvements Can Lay the Foundation for Managing India's Urbanization; Boxes; Box O.1 What Can Be Learned from the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission?…”
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Confronting suburban poverty in America by Kneebone, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Poverty and the suburbs : an introduction -- Suburban poverty, by the numbers -- Behind the numbers : what's driving suburban poverty? …”
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French minority cinema by Johnston, Cristina

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California dreaming : boosterism, memory, and rural suburbs in the Golden State / by Sandul, Paul J. P.

Table of Contents: “…Coming to Terms with MemoryChapter Six: The Ongoing Legacies of Boosterism -- Chapter Seven: Collected Memory and the Continued Legacies of Boosterism -- Conclusion: Harvesting Suburbs, Cultivating Memory -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author…”
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