Urban/rural hybrids: The urbanisation of former suburbs (URFSURBS)
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2016
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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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.
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suburbia, urbanisation, hybridisation, urban/rural hybrids, URFSURBS
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 35 (2), 2016, pp. 23-34
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0137-477X