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Angels of suburbia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Ben Stringer  and
Jane McAllister
Ben Stringer
Affiliation:
120 Southfield Road, Oxford, OX4 1PA, UKb.stringer@westminster.ac.uk
Jane McAllister
Affiliation:
160 Leighton Road, London, NW5 2RE, UKJane_mca@hotmail.com
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Extract

Suburbia is dependent on a global economy but, in spite of this, suburban domesticity in the UK is still very often framed within images of the ‘local’ whereas other parts of suburbia, such as business parks and airports, seem to embrace globalisation through sleek, high-tech, ‘non-place’ aesthetics that seem to eschew the local. The way that these aesthetic differences polarise local and global imagery within suburbia is questionable.

Type
theory
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , December 2008 , pp. 249 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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