This article contributes to a growing literature on working-class suburbanization by arguing that both the residualization and privatization of council housing need to be properly historicized. This case study of housing policy in the borough of Brighton demonstrates that council house sales between the 1950s and 1970s were important in the residualization of inter-war estates well before the '...

Patricia Gardiner is a graduate student in City Planning at San Diego State University. She is Irish, and earned her undergraduate degree in History and Politics at North London Polytechnic In Britain. She has lived in the United States for six years and has worked in a variety of community development jobs, Including a period at the San Diego Housing Commission. She worked during the summer of...

Leptospira is a global pathogen of emerging public health importance in both developing and industrialized nations and can infect almost all mammalian species, including humans. As suburbanization and the popularity of outdoor recreational activities increases, so do human-wildlife and companion animal-wildlife interfaces. Florida offers a tropical climate favorable for outdoor activities and a...

Many countries in Central and Eastern Europe have been undergoing marked economic changes following the collapse of the former “Eastern Bloc” and totalitarian regimes. In the Czech Republic, this transition has had a profound effect on land use management that subsequently results in widespread land cover changes. This study analyzes trends in land use/land cover changes (LULCC) in the context ...

Since the economic transition, manufacturing in China has undergone profound changes not only in number of enterprises, but also in ownership structure and intra-urban spatial distribution. Investigating the changing manufacturing landscape from the perspective of ownership structure is critical to a deep understanding of the changing role of market and government in re-shaping manufacturing lo...

w bile the United States has been investing in costly park-and-ride systems that have made transit increasingly dependent on the automobile, European and Japanese communities have been strengthening the potential for people to walk and bicycle to and from transit, boosting ridership at a far lower cost. In Japan and much of Europe, the fastest-growing and often predominant access mode to suburb...

Acid scrubbers and biotrickling filters have been developed for ammonia (NH3) removal at pig and poultry houses in The Netherlands over the last 20 years to prevent acidification and eutrophication of soils. Because of growing suburbanization, odor removal is increasingly considered important as well. In this review, we report the results of the on-farm research on full-scale operated scrubbers...