[audiobook] Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger Smith at Arts-Photography

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Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion; without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth.Anchored in the architectural research discipline of space syntax; this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change; touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges; with a particular focus on suburban centres. Studies of the high street as a centre for social; economic and cultural exchange provide evidence for its critical role in sustaining local centres over time. Contributors from the architecture; urban design; geography; history and anthropology disciplines examine cases spanning Europe and around the Mediterranean.By linking large-scale city mapping; urban design scale expositions of high street activity and local-scale ethnographies; the book underscores the need to consider suburban space on its own terms as a specific and complex field of social practice