What's Going on in North American Suburbs?

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A theoretical paper discussing gender in relation to spaces of consumption pertaining to urban and suburban trends in North America. There is mention of racialization and class as distinctions, perceptions of urban crime, and also suburban decay and crime; safety in the gated space, and ongoing perceptions of gender difference and prognoses for women.

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"When reading feminist and urban geography addressing North America, one is struck by several directions pursued in relating gender and suburban consumption in both the capitalist sense of the suburb as a female prison-cum-haven, and the suburb as an alleged safety zone. This paper refers to feminist geography as much as urban planning theories, to sociology and anthropology, en route to a mixed conclusion. It seems apparent that no one is terribly sure what is happening in North American suburbs. (Duany et al: 2000)."

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