Archived Media Articles

The news feeds featured in the Media Articles section are updated on a rolling, daily basis and not automatically archived. However, if there is a story that is felt to be particularly relevant for the Network, we are able to manually archive it for interested parties. Therefore, if you see a story that you would like archived for future reference, please contact us when you first see it, at suburbs@exeter.ac.uk

Archive:

‘Showing Paintings of British Suburban Houses to Saudis’ (BBC online News Magazine, 26 April 2012)  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17829052

‘Will That Starbucks Last?’ Interview with Alan Ehrenhalt (Salon, 26 April 2012) http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/will_that_starbucks_last/

‘Building a Better Suburb’ (Ottawa Citizen, 25 April 2012) http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Building+better+suburb/6505316/story.html

‘New Census Data Shows Canadian Suburbs Rule’ (CBC News, 12 April 2012) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/04/11/census-suburbs-growth.html?cmp=rss

‘US Growth of Distant Suburbs Falls to Historic Low’, by Hope Yen (Bloomberg Businessweek, 5 April 2012) http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9TUHKEG0.htm

‘Global Suburban Simulacra’, by Linda Constant (Balance of Culture, 4 April 2012) http://www.balanceofculture.com/2012/04/global-suburban-simulacra.html

‘Robert Adams: A Photographer with a Profound Sense of Place’, by Sean O’Hagan (The Guardian, 16 February 2012) http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/16/robert-adams-photographer-sense-place

‘Suburban Artists Paint the Big City’, by Robert Knox (The Boston Globe, 12 January 2012) http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-12/south/30615113_1_parking-meter-painting-newbury-street

‘Paradise Mislaid: In Pop Culture, Suburbia is all over the Map’, by Todd Leopold (CNN, 22 December 2011) http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/22/showbiz/pop-culture-suburbia/index.html

‘The Suburbs: An Unlikely Hub of Creativity?’, by Sarah Adams (ArtsHub, 29 July 2011) http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/opinions/arts/the-suburbs-an-unlikely-hub-of-creativity-184979

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

‘Saving Suburban Gardens will make Britain’s Housing Problems Worse’, by Rowan Moore, Architecture critic (The Observer, 13 June 2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/13/garden-grabbing-planning-homes-coalition?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

‘Not Just Window Dressing: Suburbs Using Art in Vacant Storefronts to Help Revitalize Communities’ by Joseph Ruzich (Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2011) http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-05-25/news/ct-x-s-villages-artwork-0525-20110525_1_vacant-buildings-arcade-building-indoor-suburban-shopping-malls 

‘How History Killed the Suburb’, by Kaid Benfield (The Atlantic, 25 April 2011) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/how-history-killed-the-suburb/237815/

‘The Sound of the Suburbs and Literary Tradition, by John Harris (The Guardian, 3 April 2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/apr/03/suburbia-pop-betjeman-john-harris

‘New Suburbs Forced to Adopt Car Culture’, by Deborah Gough (theage.com.au, 21 March 2010) http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/new-suburbs-forced-to-adopt-car-culture-20100320-qnag.html

‘Suburban Regeneration: Croyden’, by Rowan Moore (The Guardian, 28 February 2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/28/croydon-town-planning-regeneration