Peripheral Centralities (Paperback)

The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet’s urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Despite this, we understand little about the centrality of urban peripheries as the sites and spaces for some of the most imaginative, anticipatory, and purposeful instances of urbanism. This volume demonstrates the centrality of urban peripheries in all their variety with a view to reworking urban, architectural, design, planning, infrastructural, sociological, ecological, and geographical theory from the outside in. The book also examines the relationships of these new centralities to the metabolisms, assemblages, and urban political ecologies beyond the built and imagined materialities of their immediate situation.

• Features pioneering writing and illustrations on designed centralities in urban peripheries
• Presents a range of international examples covering most continents
• Offers novel theoretical interpretations from across the built environment disciplines

Nicholas A. Phelps is chair of urban planning at the University of Melbourne. He has published numerous books and over a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles internationally. His work on suburbanization derives from UK ESRC, British Academy and Urban Studies Foundation research grants.

Roger Keil is a professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change of York University in Toronto, Canada. A previous editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, former director of York University’s City Institute, and principle investigator of a large research consortium on global suburbanisms, Keil’s research areas are global suburbanization, cities and infectious diseases, regional governance, and urban political ecology.

Paul J. Maginn is an associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Western Australia. He is editor-in-chief of Australasia’s leading urban studies journal, Urban Policy and Research. Maginn’s research areas include strategic metropolitan planning, Australian and global suburbanisms, geographies of sex(uality), and COVID-19 (sub)urbanisms.