Urban / Rural Hybrids: The Urbanisation of Former Suburbs (Urfsurbs)

Kühne Olaf ()
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Kühne Olaf: Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Fakultät Landschaftsarchitektur, Am Hofgarten 4, D-85354 Freising, Germany

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2016, vol. 35, issue 4, 23-34

Abstract: In pace with changing social developments, cities undergo regular processes of transformation. Thus, following a temporary preference for suburban living, the inner city has for some years now been enjoying a residential renaissance. A further, as yet little noticed, trend is the urbanisation of former suburbs. Encompassing urbanisation and gentrification processes found in the inner-ring suburbs, this entails a breaking of established dichotomies and the development of hybrid phenomena that can be encapsulated in the acronym URFSURBS: ‘urbanisation of former suburbs’. Focusing on examples from Southern California and Greater Paris, this article places these developments in context and outlines their implications for future research.

Keywords: suburbia; urbanisation; hybridisation; urban/rural hybrids; URFSURBS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/quageo-2016-0032

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