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Radio 4,20 Aug 2008,30 mins

Imagination and the Suburbs

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IMAGINATION AND THE SUBURB 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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