Why is the dream of suburbia so often portrayed as a nightmare? In part two of a series exploring how imagination and reality combine to create the environments in which we live, Laurie Taylor discusses facts and fantasies of suburban life with writer Iain Sinclair and sociologists Paul Barker and Dr Nick Hubble.
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Dr Nick Hubble Lecturer in English at Brunel University but formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Suburban Studies at Kingston University
Beyond the Garden Gnome - Suburbs and Future Suburbs as part of the ‘Suburban Futures: Participatory Lifestyles’ event in Kingston Council’s ‘Think in Kingston’ series, Kingston University, 23 March 2006
Iain Sinclair Poet, novelist, commentator and author of London Orbital – A walk around the M25
London Orbital Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-10: 0141014741 ISBN-13: 978-0141014746
Paul Barker Senior Research Fellow at the Young Foundation and author of The Other Britain, Town and Country and Towards a New Landscape
The Other Britain Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul (1982) ASIN: B0010V60JS
Paul Barker writes about Edge City in Town and Country* edited by Anthony Barnett and Roger Scruton
Town and Country* Edited by by Anthony Barnett, Roger Scruton Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN-10: 0224052543 ISBN-13: 978-0224052542
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