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Scott W. Allard and Benjamin Roth, ‘Strained Suburbs: The Social Service Challenges of Rising Suburban Poverty’, October, 2010, pp. 1-36  http://www.brookings-tsinghua.cn/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/1007_suburban_poverty_allard_roth/1007_suburban_poverty_allard_roth.pdf

John Archer, ‘Suburban Aesthetics is Not an Oxymoron’ (excerpt from World’s Away: New Suburban Landscapes) http://design.walkerart.org/worldsaway/Essay/SuburbanAestheticsIsNotAnOxymoron

Emily Badger, ‘Why Suburban Poverty is Less Visible and More Insidious’ (article and comments in The Atlantic Cities 20 May 2013 http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/05/why-suburban-poverty-less-visible-and-more-insidious/5648/

Pierre-Arnaud Barthel, Valérie Clerc and Pascale Philifert, ‘Rushing Towards Urban Sustainability in the Arab Region : Learnings from a Genalogic and Critical Perspective’, Villes Régions Monde Urban Environment 7 (2013), pp. 1-15 http://www.vrm.ca/cyber_pub.asp?vol=2013.

Jonathan Ervine, ‘Citizenship and Belonging in Suburban France: the Music of Zebda‘, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 7:2 (2008), pp. 199-213 http://www.acme-journal.org/vol7/JEr.pdf

Peter Bacon Hales, Art History Department, University of Illinios at Chicago, ‘Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb’ (collaborative online history resource) http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

Julie Balise, ‘Suburbs Fall Short of the American Dream’, msn money (6 August 2013) http://money.msn.com/now/post–suburbs-fall-short-of-american-dream

Jacqueline Banerjee, with Sarah Sullivan, ‘Blackheath Village, Surrey: Charles Harrison Townsend and the Garden Suburb Movement’, The Victorian Web (2011) http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/townsend/4.html

Melanie Bax and Sarah Considine, ‘We Heart the Suburbs’ (community design project blogpages) http://weheartthesuburbs.blogspot.co.uk/

BBC News Europe Online, ‘Hollande Plans New Aid for France’s Deprived Suburbs’ (2 August 2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23550161

BBC News Online, ‘Levittown: A Suburb at 60’ (2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16283802

Chris Brennan-Horley, ‘Reappraising the Role of Suburban Workplaces in Darwin’s Creative Economy’, M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture 14:4 (August 2011) http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/356

Carolyn Bye, Sylvia Paine Lindman (Ed), ‘A New Angle: Arts Development in the Suburbs’ (Minnesota: The McKnight Foundation, 2002) http://www.mcknight.org/files/angle01.pdf

Shenglin E. Chang and Willow Lung Amam, ‘Born Glocal: Youth Identity and Suburban Spaces in the U.S. and Taiwan’, Amerasia Journal 36:3 (2010), pp. 29-52 http://aascpress.metapress.com/content/g64015j8x06r8j53/

Valérie Clerc, ‘Informal Settlements in the Event of the Crisis in Syria: An Unfinished Inflection of Urban and Housing Policies?’ in P-A Barthel and S. Jaglin The Arab Spring and Urban Fabric, Assessment and Prospects for Action in Informal  Settlements  (2013) http://www.afd.fr/home/publications/http://issuu.com/objectif-developpement/docs/seminairen7_webtravaux-de-recherche/publications-scientifiques/conferences-seminaireshttp://issuu.com/objectif-developpement/docs/seminairen7_web

Valérie Clerc V, ‘”Zone of collective illegality” in Syria, defying a regime’,  Paris, Villes en développement 91 (2012), pp. 5-6. Online in French and English at http://www.ville-developpement.org/travaux-adp/villes-en-developpement

Valérie Clerc, ‘Housing the poor in Damascus: from the empty housing crisis to the increase of informal settlements’, IFPO Notebooks: Research being done at the l’Institut Français du Proche-Orient, (Hypothèses.org), 31 octobre 2012. Online at http://ifpo.hypotheses.org/4472

Peter Cock, ‘Our Suburbs Can be Transformed into True Communities’ (Sydney Morning Herald ‘Opinion’ 26 April 2010)  http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/our-suburbs-can-be-transformed-into-true-communities-20100425-tll4.html

Cheryl Cowdy, ‘Mississauga: Cadence of Desire and Return. A Childhood Geografictione’, Numero Cinq II:48 (November 2011) http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2011/11/29/mississauga-cadence-of-desire-and-return-a-childhood-geografictione-by-cheryl-cowdy/

William H. Frey, ‘Demographic Reversal: Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter’ (Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program: ‘State of Metropolitan America’ series no. 56 of 57. Opinion, 29 June 2012) http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/06/29-cities-suburbs-frey

Nicole Stelle Garnett, ‘Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance’, Michigan Law Review vol 107 (2007) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=975217

David Glick, ‘Can Architects Fix the Suburbs?: Designers Visit Long Island to Find Out’ (blog page and review 2 June 2011) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-glick/can-architects-fix-the-su_b_865351.html

Henry Grabar, ‘Suburbia in Sand: Choose Your Own Metaphor’ (The Atlantic Cities 27 June 2013) http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/06/suburbia-sand-choose-your-own-metaphor/6042/

Shane Green, ‘Standing Up for the Suburbs and Life with Fringe Benefits’ (The Age Comment, 9 March 2013) http://www.theage.com.au/comment/standing-up-for-the-suburbs-and-life-with-fringe-benefits-20130308-2fr0q.html

Alistair Greig, ‘The Way We Live’, GriffithREVIEW Edition 2: ‘Dreams of Land’ https://griffithreview.com/edition-2-dreams-of-land/the-way-we-live

Marc Gunther ‘What Does “The End of the Suburbs” Mean for Sustainability?’ (The Guardian Sustainable Business: interview with Leigh Gallagher on her new book about the death of the American suburb, 15 August 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/death-of-american-suburbs-business

Louise Hawson, 52 Suburbs Around the World (blog 2012) http://52suburbs.com/

Michael K. Hayes, 2ha (online bi-monthly magazine relating to ongoing research into the Dublin suburbs) http://www.2ha.ie/

English Heritage/HELM (Historic Environment Local Management), The Heritage of Historic Suburbs (2007) http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/Heritage-Suburbs.pdf

Joel Kotkin, ‘America’s Future is Taking Place in the Suburbs’, (post and comments, part of the ‘Reinventing America’ section, Forbes.com 31 July 2012) http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2012/07/31/americas-future-is-taking-shape-in-the-suburbs/2/

Suzanne Lanyi Charles, ‘Suburban Gentrification: Understanding the Determinants of Single-Family Residential Redevelopment, a Case Study of the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, IL, 2000-2010’ (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2011) http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/publications/suburban-gentrification-understanding-determinants-single-family-residential

Sarah Laskow, ‘Poverty Finds the Suburbs’ (post and comment, Boston Globe 2 June 2013) http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/06/01/poverty-finds-suburbs/wc8ruyTafhc4US5vklppYI/story.html

Philip Lawton (Lecturer in Culture and Urban Development, Maastricht University) Landscapes of the Suburbs Blog at http://phillawton.wordpress.com/tag/suburbs/

Christopher B. Leinberger, ‘The Death of the Fringe Suburb’ (The New York Times Opinion Pages, 25 November 2011) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/opinion/the-death-of-the-fringe-suburb.html

Kevin Leonard, ‘Rhiwbina Garden Village in Cardiff Celebrates Centenary’ (BBC News Wales Online, 3 January 2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20719497

Scott London, ‘The City of Tomorrow: An Interview with Peter Calthorpe’ (blog page 2012) http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/calthorpe.html

Carol Morello, ‘If Baby Boomers Stay in Suburbia, Analysts Predict Cultural Shift’ (Washington Post blog page 28 June 2011) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/if-baby-boomers-stay-in-suburbia-analysts-predict-cultural-shift/2011/06/27/AGeMLUoH_story.html

Yumiko Murai, ‘Suburb Cities and Contemporary Art: Are They Compatible or Not?’ (blog page 28 July 2010) http://g-edu.kmd.keio.ac.jp/wordpress/?p=2368

Alexandra K. Murphy, ‘”Litterers”: How Objects of Physical Disorder are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb’, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2012 642:210. Online at http://ann.sagepub.com/content/642/1/210

Becky M. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, ‘Suburban Disequilibrium’ (post and comments The New York Times 6 April 2013) http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/suburban-disequilibrium/

Myron Orfield, ‘How the Suburbs Gave Birth to America’s Most Diverse Neighborhoods’ (The Atlantic Cities blog and comment page 20 July 2012) http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2012/07/how-suburbs-gave-birth-americas-most-diverse-neighborhoods/2647/

Nathanael O’Reilly, ‘Exploring Indigenous Identity in Suburbia: Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs‘, JASAL 10 (2010), pp. 1-13 http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/issue/view/132/showToc

– – – , ‘Embracing Suburbia: Breaking Tradition and Accepting the Self in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia‘, Literary London: Interdispciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, 7: 2 (September 2009) http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september2009/oreilly.html

Alejandro Rivas (Princeton University) and Andrea Panchok-Berry (University of Pennsylvania), ‘The Landscape of Immigrant Resources in Urban & Suburban Philadelphia’ [2010?]  http://paa2012.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=120020

Sam Roberts, ‘Suburbs’ Share of Poor Has Grown Since 2000′ (post and comments The New York Times 20 May 2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/nyregion/suburbs-are-home-to-growing-share-of-regions-poor.html?_r=0

H. V. Savitch, ‘How Suburban Sprawl Shapes Human Well-being’, Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 80:4 (December 2005), pp. 590-607 http://www.upv.es/contenidos/CAMUNISO/info/U0564944.pdf

Bindi Shah, Claire Dwyer & David Gilbert, ‘Landscapes of Diasporic Religious Belongings in the Edge-City: the Jain Temple at Potters Bar, Outer London’, South Asian Diaspora 4:1 (2012), pp. 77-94 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19438192.2012.634565

Neil Shah, ‘U.S. Cities Growing Faster Than Suburbs’ (article and comments in The Wall Street Journal 23 May 2013) http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/05/23/u-s-cities-growing-faster-than-suburbs/

Loren Steffy, ‘Will Rising Energy Prices End Suburban Sprawl?’ (Forbes online blog 30 September 2013) http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorensteffy/2013/09/30/will-rising-energy-prices-end-suburban-sprawl/

Aldo Svaldi, ‘Urbanised Suburbs are the Future, Experts Say’ (The Denver Post Business blog 18 October 2013) http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_24334621/urbanized-suburbs-are-future-experts-say

The McKnight Foundation and FORECAST Public Artworks, ‘You Are Here: Exploring Art in the Suburbs’ (Minnesota: FORECAST, 2005). Downloadable at  http://www.mcknight.org/youarehere/

‘Sophiatown and Its People’ – online article on Joburg, my City, our Future (official website of the City of Johannesburg) (4 November 2011) http://www.joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7394&catid=88&Itemid=266

Alan Walks, ‘Suburbanism as a Way of Life, Slight Return’, Urban Studies at 50 50:8 (June 2013) http://usj.sagepub.com/content/50/8/1471

David Warrren and Robert Puentes, ‘One Fifth of America: a Comprehensive Guide to America’s First Suburbs’ (Brookings Research Report, February 2006) http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2006/02/metropolitanpolicy-puentes

Hope Yen and Kristen Wyatt, ‘Cities Grow More Than Suburbs, First Time in 100 Years’ (NBCNews.com: TodayMoney) (28 June 2012) http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47992439/ns/today-money/t/cities-grow-more-suburbs-first-time-years/

Andrew Zaleski, ‘The Great Inversion: Cities are the New Suburbs, Suburbs the New Cities’, interview with Alan Ehrenhalt (Grist 30 May 2012) http://grist.org/cities/the-great-inversion-cities-are-the-new-suburbs-suburbs-the-new-cities/