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When America Became Suburban
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The active city? Disparities in provision of urban public recreation resources.
TL;DR: Investigation of the spatial distribution of public recreational programs in southern California finds that more than half of all recreation programs take place away from a formal park site, suggesting cities characterized by low household incomes, low fiscal capacity, minority populations, and multi-family housing are disadvantaged with respect to recreation provisions.
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Shrinking cities: Notes for the further research agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors call for a more elaborate bridging of national discussions, enhancing scholarly understanding of urban shrinkage, and reflecting upon governance and policy, and align the research on urban shrinkages with general challenges and strands of research in urban and regional studies, human geography, and spatial planning.
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Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance
TL;DR: Ekers et al. as mentioned in this paper trace the major modalities of suburban governance through a review of the extant literature on the matter and make a case for each and how they function and interrelate.
The Future of Shrinking Cities: Problems, Patterns and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context
TL;DR: The Future of Shrinking Cities: Problems, Patterns, and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context as discussed by the authors presents research carried out under the aegis of the shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN) and selected case studies from the United States.
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The New Post-suburban Politics?
Nicholas A. Phelps,Andrew Wood +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the structural properties of capitalism that generate differences within the unity of the urbanisation process are discussed, focusing on what the increasing economic gravity of post-suburbia, the difficulty of bounding postsuburban communities and the continuing role of the state imply for understanding urban politics and the reformulation of urban political theory.