By Roger Keil Arizona State University scholar Wei Li popularized the notion of an ethnoburb in her research on the St.Gabriel Valley in Southern California in the 1990s. The concept has since become a mainstay of (sub)urban research in the United States and to some degree in Canada. Recent Master in Environmental Studies (MES) graduate […]
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First we take Manhattan… and then we take the ‘burbs?
By Roger Keil A strange thing happened in the heart of the world’s most centralized global city. During the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in New York City (February 24-28, 2012), suburban themes took centre stage. Remarkably, an unusual number of sessions presented research on suburbanization and suburbanism from around the […]
