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On the Edge
Rupa Huq
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Description for On the Edge
Paperback. This book presents a convincing case for the need to radically rethink the way we understand contemporary suburban life, in an analysis that ranges across gender, ethnicity, class, religion, lifestyle, consumerism, family life, gentrification, property relations, political representation, city life and globalisation. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
Suburbs and the relationships that sustain them have been subject to tremendous changes in the last fifty years, with changing work patterns, changing family lives, changing patterns of home ownership and a massive shift in the structural relationships between inner cities and their surrounding urban environment. But this transformation has been largely overlooked, and the suburbs have lived on in the collective imagination as places that are homogenous and/or boring. But suburbs have always come in many shapes and sizes, and this book documents widely varying forms of suburban life to construct a compelling narrative of suburban diversity and ... Read more
Suburbs and the relationships that sustain them have been subject to tremendous changes in the last fifty years, with changing work patterns, changing family lives, changing patterns of home ownership and a massive shift in the structural relationships between inner cities and their surrounding urban environment. But this transformation has been largely overlooked, and the suburbs have lived on in the collective imagination as places that are homogenous and/or boring. But suburbs have always come in many shapes and sizes, and this book documents widely varying forms of suburban life to construct a compelling narrative of suburban diversity and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Lawrence and Wishart Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907103728
SKU
V9781907103728
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-44
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