Peripheral Centralities
The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. July 2026
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Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-032-43426-1 (ISBN)
Description
The term 'peripheral centralities' may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral centralities of different sizes, purpose, geographical location, and political complexion, dating from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present day. Following the introduction, two chapters provide broad overviews of peripheral centralities in international and national systems of centralities. The next four chapters look at plans from settings as different as Dublin and Shanghai that, for one reason or another, failed to materialize. The following eight chapters each describes cases where projects have been realized, ranging from peripheral townships in England to a Chinese steel city. To conclude the book, the editors highlight the themes revealed in the foregoing chapters and consider the part an appreciation of peripheral centralities might play in the development of urban theory from the outside in.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-43426-1 (9781032434261)
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The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs
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The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs
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Persons
Nicholas A. Phelps is Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
Roger Keil is Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto and Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's (CIFAR) Humanity's Urban Future program.
Paul J. Maginn is Director of the Public Policy Institute and an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
Roger Keil is Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto and Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's (CIFAR) Humanity's Urban Future program.
Paul J. Maginn is Director of the Public Policy Institute and an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
Content
Editors and Contributors
Preface
Introduction. Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past of the Urbanity of the Suburbs
Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil and Paul J. Maginn
Chapter 1. Centres in the Metropolitan Periphery: A Spatial Planning History
Robert Freestone
Chapter 2. Soviet Sputnik Towns: The Past of a Sustainable Urban Future? Remaking Periphery through Distributing Centrality
Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Ilina
Chapter 3. Pipedream or Growth Area Benchmark? Berwick's Metrotown Plan
Victoria Kolankiewicz, David Nichols and Nicholas A. Phelps
Chapter 4. Flying Boats, Garden Suburbs, Oil Refineries and Motorways - Exploring the Forgotten Twentieth-Century Plans for Dublin Bay
Ruth McManus
Chapter 5. 'Metropolitan Adelaide's Unique Opportunity': Charles Reade's Plan of Adelaide and Suburbs (1917)
Christine Garnaut
Chapter 6. Informal Centralities against Fascism: Popular Urbanization in Madrid, 1940s-1970s
Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago and Noel A. Manzano Gomez
Chapter 7. The Greater Shanghai Plan (1927-1937): An Unfulfilled Urban Dream
Richard Hu
Chapter 8. War, Military Settlements, and Planetary (Sub)Urbanization
Gabriel Schwake and Carola Hein
Chapter 9. Exploring the Emergence of Peripheral Centralities in Bengaluru: The Case of Electronics City
H.S. Sudhira
Chapter 10. What Peripheral Centrality Does to the City: The 'EUR Neighbourhood' in Rome, Italy
Marco Cremaschi
Chapter 11. 'A Bright New World of Convenience, Effi ciency, and Plenty': The Incorporation and Dissolution of Peripheral Mass Public Housing in Newcastle and Dundee, 1960s to 1990s
Andrew Hoolachan and Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Chapter 12. The Social Ambitions and Failures of Architecture in Oslo's New Towns of 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
Per Gunnar Roe
Chapter 13. Wuhan's Red Steel City: The Waning Centrality of an Industrial Satellite Town?
Julie T. Miao, Nicholas A. Phelps, Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li
Chapter 14. Lost and Peripheral Centralities in the Post-Colony: Lessons from West Africa
Laurent Fourchard
Conclusion. Histories beyond 'Methodological Cityism'
Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil and Paul J. Maginn
Index
Preface
Introduction. Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past of the Urbanity of the Suburbs
Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil and Paul J. Maginn
Chapter 1. Centres in the Metropolitan Periphery: A Spatial Planning History
Robert Freestone
Chapter 2. Soviet Sputnik Towns: The Past of a Sustainable Urban Future? Remaking Periphery through Distributing Centrality
Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Ilina
Chapter 3. Pipedream or Growth Area Benchmark? Berwick's Metrotown Plan
Victoria Kolankiewicz, David Nichols and Nicholas A. Phelps
Chapter 4. Flying Boats, Garden Suburbs, Oil Refineries and Motorways - Exploring the Forgotten Twentieth-Century Plans for Dublin Bay
Ruth McManus
Chapter 5. 'Metropolitan Adelaide's Unique Opportunity': Charles Reade's Plan of Adelaide and Suburbs (1917)
Christine Garnaut
Chapter 6. Informal Centralities against Fascism: Popular Urbanization in Madrid, 1940s-1970s
Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago and Noel A. Manzano Gomez
Chapter 7. The Greater Shanghai Plan (1927-1937): An Unfulfilled Urban Dream
Richard Hu
Chapter 8. War, Military Settlements, and Planetary (Sub)Urbanization
Gabriel Schwake and Carola Hein
Chapter 9. Exploring the Emergence of Peripheral Centralities in Bengaluru: The Case of Electronics City
H.S. Sudhira
Chapter 10. What Peripheral Centrality Does to the City: The 'EUR Neighbourhood' in Rome, Italy
Marco Cremaschi
Chapter 11. 'A Bright New World of Convenience, Effi ciency, and Plenty': The Incorporation and Dissolution of Peripheral Mass Public Housing in Newcastle and Dundee, 1960s to 1990s
Andrew Hoolachan and Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Chapter 12. The Social Ambitions and Failures of Architecture in Oslo's New Towns of 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
Per Gunnar Roe
Chapter 13. Wuhan's Red Steel City: The Waning Centrality of an Industrial Satellite Town?
Julie T. Miao, Nicholas A. Phelps, Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li
Chapter 14. Lost and Peripheral Centralities in the Post-Colony: Lessons from West Africa
Laurent Fourchard
Conclusion. Histories beyond 'Methodological Cityism'
Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil and Paul J. Maginn
Index