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Suburbia Revisited

Sociological discussion programme. Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works.

Suburbia Revisited: Has it ceased to be a place of leafy affluence as poverty has migrated from the city? New research suggests the decline of an American 'golden age' of white picket fences and two garage homes. Laurie Taylor explores the origin, myth and reality of the suburban dream, in Britain as well as the US. Is the suburbanisation of poverty a widespread phenomenon? He's joined by Mark Clapson, Professor of Social and Urban History at the University of Westminster, Scott Allard, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Washington and Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics
Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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28 minutes

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Mon 16 Jul 2018 00:15

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Scott W. Allard, Places in Need - The Changing Geography of Poverty, (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017)

Mark Clapson, Working-class suburb: social change on an English council estate, 1930-2010, (Manchester University Press, 2012)

Anne Power, Cities for a Small Continent: International Handbook of City Recovery, (Policy Press, 2016)

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  • Wed 11 Jul 2018 16:00
  • Mon 16 Jul 2018 00:15

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