From garden suburbs to post‑war inner‑ and outer‑suburbs, from New Urbanist communities to edge cities, technoburbs, and exurbs, this course critically considers the planning of suburban built form and the suburbanization process in historical perspective, addressing mechanisms of growth management, socio‑cultural geographies, gender, racialized poverty, unemployment, infrastructural inadequacy, sprawl, sustainability, and alternative futures.
From garden suburbs to post‑war inner‑ and outer‑suburbs, from New Urbanist communities to edge cities, technoburbs, and exurbs, this course critically considers the planning of suburban built form and the suburbanization process in historical perspective, addressing mechanisms of growth management, socio‑cultural geographies, gender, racialized poverty, unemployment, infrastructural inadequacy, sprawl, sustainability, and alternative futures.
