"Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a...

"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The...

Die aktuelle Transformierung stadtregionaler Zusammenhänge wird mit scheinbar widersprüchlichen Befunden diskutiert. Während auf der einen Seite zunehmend Trends einer "Renaissance der (Innen-)Städte" bis hin zur Reurbanisierung erkannt werden, belegen andere Arbeiten nicht nur anhaltende...

"Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of “peripheral urbanization” as a way to integrate the theoretical...