Organized labor and the housing question: public housing, suburbanization, and urban renewal
This paper examines those public-housing, suburbanization, and urban renewal policies in the USA that have evolved as a consequence of intraclass struggle. It is argued that the powerful constituency of organized labor was able, in 1950's, to impose
suburbanization as a valid answer to the housing question of the unions, while subsuming the housing demands, needs, and wants of less-powerful women and blacks. By the 1960's, the growing movements of women and blacks were able to challenge the dominance
of the labor-liberal coalition and to successfully oppose the union-advocated policies of urban renewal and suburbanization.
The hinterland of large towns is utilised with an extraordinary intensity for the short-term recreation. Four special bands can be differentiated: downtown band, suburban band, narrower rural recreational band, wider rural recreation band. (MS).
A study was made to determine the impact of a plantation of rubber trees Hevea brasiliensis and an adjacent suburban environment on birds inhabiting the western lowlands of peninsular Malaysia. Distribution of several bird species appeared
The rapid growth in the number of retail warehouses has become an important element in the process of retail suburbanization taking place in Britain. This paper provides a brief outline of the development and locational pattern of retail warehouse
. It also experiences difficulties of land and water shortage, environmental deterioration and congestion. Remedies suggested are: restructuring of the urban hierarchy, redistribution of industrial establishments, improvement of techniques, suburbanization
. Irrationality in the relative locations of steel producers and their immediate consumers is pinpointed. The development of special quality steel and steel products, a halt to further expansion of steel capacity, and relocation of some small plants to suburban
. Retail and service facilities are classified into 4 types while the analysis groups the centres into 5 orders. Over concentration is pointed out and establishment of intermediate centres recommended for new suburban areas. (TNC).
in the city suburb has fluctuated in the past and the cost of production has risen. Increase in population in the three western suburban counties and in yield is estimated and a fall in the availability of surplus is expected unless the suggested remedial
, when considering the central city-suburban ring interactions for relative mobility of population and transfer of rental value, a dynamic deterministic formulation of density-rent interaction replicates empirical evidence in a satisfactory manner