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Anchored in the architectural research discipline of space syntax, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change, touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges, with a particular focus on suburban centres.

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'Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street, ' by Urban Form and Society Professor Laura Vaughan, is a book that, unlike others before it, consider urban and suburbs together rather than two different areas. Rather than taking the city out of the suburb or the suburb out of the city, the intention of the recently published Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street has been to consider the two together: the suburb as a continuum of the city's spatial-social complexity. Suburban Urbanities is a hugely important contribution to understanding our suburban world Book reviews rarely comment on the quality of the production of the physical item itself, yet Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street begs an initial reflection on this aspect. UCL Press should be commended for producing a book that looks and feels beautiful: it is a physical item that any scholar interested in the urban should want on their shelf, and there is something to be said for the importance of this. Of course, such attention to detail would be wasted without good content, but thankfully this collection, edited by Laura Vaughan, does not disappoint. 'Suburban Urbanities is a hugely important contribution to understanding our suburban world.' Thinking Cities 'Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street', by Urban Form and Society Professor Laura Vaughan, is a book that, unlike others before it, consider urban and suburbs together rather than two different areas.' 'Book reviews rarely comment on the quality of the production of the physical item itself, yet Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street begs an initial reflection on this aspect. UCL Press should be commended for producing a book that looks and feels beautiful: it is a physical item that any scholar interested in the urban should want on their shelf, and there is something to be said for the importance of this. Of course, such attention to detail would be wasted without good content, but thankfully this collection, edited by Laura Vaughan, does not disappoint.' LSE Review of Books 'It is clear that attempts to pinpoint a suburban culture are going to arrive at a dead end (if you will forgive the pun), if suburban culture is seen to be as shallow-rooted as its grassy lawns. A deeper understanding of suburban culture, if we are willing to agree that there is such a thing, will take as its starting point that its inhabitants have had a past life elsewhere.' Alexandrine Press 'Jane Jacobs' pioneering work on the death and life of the city continues to engage, with UCL Professor Laura Vaughan's collection of essays analysing the morphology of the UK high street through time and via the likes of Spain's Toledo, Limassol in Cyprus and urban Tripoli.' RIBAJ 'Rather than taking the city out of the suburb or the suburb out of the city, the intention of the recently published Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street has been to consider the two together: the suburb as a continuum of the city's spatial-social complexity.' City Lab It is clear that attempts to pinpoint a suburban culture are going to arrive at a dead end (if you will forgive the pun), if suburban culture is seen to be as shallow-rooted as its grassy lawns. A deeper understanding of suburban culture, if we are willing to agree that there is such a thing, will take as its starting point that its inhabitants have had a past life elsewhere. Jane Jacobs' pioneering work on the death and life of the city continues to engage, with UCL Professor Laura Vaughan's collection of essays analysing the morphology of the UK high street through time and via the likes of Spain's Toledo, Limassol in Cyprus and urban Tripoli.

'Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street', by Urban Form and Society Professor Laura Vaughan, is a book that, unlike others before it, consider urban and suburbs together rather than two different areas.' Realty Today 'Suburban Urbanities is a hugely important contribution to understanding our suburban world.' Thinking Cities 'Book reviews rarely comment on the quality of the production of the physical item itself, yet Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street begs an initial reflection on this aspect. UCL Press should be commended for producing a book that looks and feels beautiful: it is a physical item that any scholar interested in the urban should want on their shelf, and there is something to be said for the importance of this. Of course, such attention to detail would be wasted without good content, but thankfully this collection, edited by Laura Vaughan, does not disappoint.' LSE Review of Books 'It is clear that attempts to pinpoint a suburban culture are going to arrive at a dead end (if you will forgive the pun), if suburban culture is seen to be as shallow-rooted as its grassy lawns. A deeper understanding of suburban culture, if we are willing to agree that there is such a thing, will take as its starting point that its inhabitants have had a past life elsewhere.' Alexandrine Press 'Jane Jacobs' pioneering work on the death and life of the city continues to engage, with UCL Professor Laura Vaughan's collection of essays analysing the morphology of the UK high street through time and via the likes of Spain's Toledo, Limassol in Cyprus and urban Tripoli.' RIBAJ 'Rather than taking the city out of the suburb or the suburb out of the city, the intention of the recently published Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street has been to consider the two together: the suburb as a continuum of the city's spatial-social complexity.' City Lab

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Laura Vaughan is Professor of Urban Form and Society at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. In addition to her longstanding research into London's suburban evolution, she has written on many other critical aspects of urbanism today.

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