Peripheral Centralities
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Nicholas A. Phelps ist Professor für Stadtplanung an der Universität Melbourne. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Bücher und Artikel in internationalen Fachzeitschriften. Seine Forschungsarbeit zur Suburbanisierung wird von der britischen ESRC, der British Academy und der Urban Studies Foundation gefördert.
Roger Keil ist Professor an der Fakultät für Umwelt- und Stadtentwicklung der York University in Toronto, Kanada. Zudem ist er ehemaliger Herausgeber des International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , ehemaliger Direktor des City Institute der York University sowie Leiter eines großen Forschungskonsortiums zu globalem Suburbanismus. Keils Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen globale Suburbanisierung, Stadt- und Infektionskrankheiten, Regionalverwaltung und urbane politische Ökologie.
Paul J. Maginn ist Extraordinarius für Stadt- und Regionalplanung an der University of Western Australia. Er ist Direktor des UWA Public Policy Institute und war Chefredakteur von Urban Policy and Research , Australasiens führender Fachzeitschrift für Urbanistik. Maginn forscht unter anderem zu strategischer Großstadtplanung, australischem und globalem Suburbanismus, Stadtpolitik, Multikulturalismus und Geografien der Sexindustrie.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Periphery at the Centre
- Pervasiveness
- Incremental Metropolitanism: An Assessment of Retrofitting Suburbia's Endgame
- From Swamp to Satellite: The Case of Cassia Township, Penang
- Golf Courses as New Suburban Centralities: The Case of Johannesburg
- Relations
- Back on the Map? De/centring the 'Community Benefit' in Weston, Toronto
- Peripheral Centrality as Strategic Process in Urban Redevelopment: The Capitol Theatre and Flint, Michigan
- Cultivating Suburban Place Affection: Encountering the Pluriverse within Peripheral Centralities
- Peripheries No Longer? Bringing Greenbelts into Urban Regions
- Agency
- The Dam Headquarters as a Symbol of Ecomodernism
- Peripheral Centralities in Val d'Europe: The Logics of Assemblage between Disneyland Paris and New Town Principles of Planning
- From Oil Refinery to Green Park: The Quest for Autonomy and Peripheral Centrality
- Jakarta's Suburban Reverie
- Technologies
- From Central Peripheries to Peripheral Centralities: Housing, Uneven Infrastructure, and Urban Inequalities in Canada's Waterloo Region
- Peripheral Centrality or Resource Periphery? Eastern Germany amid the Boom of Transnational Investment in Green Technologies
- Distribution at the Periphery: Inland Ports and Regional Infrastructure
- Time Out of Space: Data Centres on the Periphery of the Greater Toronto Area
- The Western Sydney Aerotropolis: A New Centre for Peripheral Sydney
- Seeing
- Centring the Inconspicuous: The Central Role of Peripheral and Alternative Global Spaces in Aspropyrgos
- Rendering Density as a Public Good
- Tales from the Road: An Experience of Critical Visual Narration along a Suburban Motorway
- Iconic Architecture in the Periphery: Building the Ideal City of the Future
- The Role of Starchitects in 'Solving' the Peripheral Problematique
- Culture-led Peripheral Centrality: The Story of Songzhuang, the World's Largest Arts District
- Conclusion: Towards an Epistemology of the Urban Periphery?
- Author Biographies
- Imprint
