Hybrid suburbia: New research perspectives in France and Southern California
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2017-12
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Geographical research on French and US suburbia has concentrated in recent decades on urban sprawl and
concomitant processes of devaluation and exclusion. In the case of the French banlieues, with their much-publicised
urban riots, this particular analytic focus has become overwhelming, with resultant loss to other developments and
perspectives. However, certain districts in the first (or inner) ring of both French and US suburbia are currently showing
distinct urbanisation tendencies in planning and architecture, evident in the new usage of brownfield sites and
the ongoing demolition, replacement, and rededication of the older building core. Such processes induce population
changes, e.g. the displacement of lower in favour of higher income groups. Overall, they result in an architectonic, social
and cultural heterogeneity that escapes the specificity of received categories and merits the term hybridisation. The
article describes and compares these processes as exemplified in Greater Paris and San Diego (Southern California).
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suburbia, Southern California, France, stigmatisation, urban-rural hybrids
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 36 (4), 2017, pp. 17-28
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0137-477X