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Postcards From Suburbia: Rethinking the Urban Peripheries

Azure Magazine

My suburban experience includes riding the bus as people chat around me in Spanish and French Creole,” Kolson Hurley notes, reflecting on her life in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. Meanwhile, “leapfrog development” beyond the frayed urban growth boundary is already stretching the region into the exurban distance.

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City, Suburb, Server Farm: The Urban Geography of Amazon

Azure Magazine

Reader, I did my part. At the time, in my role as the web editor for a suite of small Canadian publications focusing on the built environment, I regularly updated our readers on the spectacle. Immediately west of Toronto, the Peel Region cities of Brampton and Mississauga are collectively home to a trio of fulfilment centres.