Suburbs: The 3Bs: Bland, Blend and Brutal Scapes

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Volume 49 – Number 1

Summary

The contributors to this issue provide a rich and diverse interpretation of the concept of suburban bland, blend and brutalscapes within different national and metropolitan contexts. Together they reveal several common threads: the identity of suburbs as lying somewhere between ‘the urban’ and ‘the rural’; the role of incrementalism in suburban development; the differential value placed on suburban land and property; and the social, cultural, and political-ecological importance of suburbs.

Paul J. Maginn

04 Apr 2023

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Contents

• Making Sense of Twenty-First Century (Sub)Urban Landscapes: Blandscapes, Blendscapes, Brutalscapes and Brutopianscapes
  PAUL J. MAGINN and NICHOLAS A. PHELPS
• The Blended Landscapes of Outer London
  LUCY NATARAJAN, DIMITRIOS PANAYOTOPOULOS-TSIROS and JONATHAN MANNS
• Accessory Dwelling Units and Incremental Urbanism: Becoming ‘Urban’ or just ‘Intensive Suburban’?
  LAURENCE TROY and RYAN VAN DEN NOUWELANT
  From Edge City to City Edge
• PHILIP LAWTON and CARLA MARIA KAYANAN
  Emerging Post-Suburban Blendscapes in Metropolitan Milan and Amsterdam: Comparing Pioltello and Almere
• LORENZO DE VIDOVICH and YANNIS TZANINIS
  Institutional Blendscapes: The Suburban Governance Role of the Diputación de Barcelona
  SOFIA PAGLIARIN
• Regeneration and ‘Placemaking’ without Governance in a Greyfield Context: The Transformation of Salisbury, Queensland, Australia
  SÉBASTIEN DARCHEN
• Melbourne’s Suburban Landscapes Administering Population and Employment Growth
  NICHOLAS A. PHELPS, MICHAEL BUXTON and DAVID NICHOLS
• Publication review

Cover images: front: The Caspian Quarter, Barking Reach, East London (photo: CC sludgegulper): back: Stelingen, a suburban district of Garbsen near Hannover (photo: CC Daniel Schwen)

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