Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities

Phelps, Nicholas A.; Maginn, Paul J.; Keil, Roger

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“…To respond to these questions, critical suburban studies (CSS) provides a useful approach (Phelps 2018;Keil 2017;Phelps, Maginn & Keil 2023). The first question is important because, as hypothesised before, in less formal, more intuitive and de facto ASs (the dominant form of adaptation in PMs where suburbs are prevalent), imaginaries and assumptions have a more decisive role on what strategies are adopted.…”

Section: Governance Of Suburban Adaptation In Peripheral Municipalitiesmentioning

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Suburban climate adaptation governance: assumptions and imaginaries affecting peripheral municipalities

Cerrada Morato

2024

Buildings and Cities

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The world is rapidly suburbanising and, as recognised in numerous academic and policy documents, suburbs are not only environmentally unsustainable but also particularly vulnerable to climate change. This same literature and policy discourse suggests the solution to making suburbs more sustainable and adaptable is densification and investing in infrastructural green growth. Meanwhile, alternative approaches in critical suburban literature suggest that densification might create negative externalities, and instead propose the transformation of infrastructures' management and ownership to support an innovative and autochthonous path for suburbs' climate adaptation. Yet limited empirical knowledge exists on what adaptation strategies are being implemented across peripheral municipalities where suburbs are more prevalent. A comparative analysis is presented of three peripheral municipalities in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on their adaptation strategies for water and sanitation. This shows how mainstream assumptions about suburbs and imaginaries of adaptation influence their strategies, as well as how the specific characteristics in the peripheral municipalities allow or hamper more innovative approaches. Three factors emerge as more important in allowing innovation and autochthonous solutions: the level of suburbanisation, the management model for municipal infrastructures, and their political context (including proximity of local government with higher-tier bodies and government composition). PRACTICE RELEVANCEPeripheral municipalities around the world, with a predominant suburban character, are considered the most unsustainable form of urbanisation and the areas in cities that are most at risk to climate change. This research demonstrates the importance of policymakers' imaginaries for advancing less formal and de facto (as well as formal) innovative adaptation strategies in peripheral municipalities. While the production of formal adaptation strategies by capital cities' governments is growing, less formal, more intuitive and de facto strategies dominate any adaptation efforts in peripheral municipalities, where suburbs are prevalent. Opportunities for innovation in adaptation strategies and challenging existing assumptions reside in influencing the underlying policy assumptions and imaginaries that peripheral municipalities' policymakers currently hold.

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Suburban climate adaptation governance: assumptions and imaginaries affecting peripheral municipalities

Cerrada Morato

2024

Buildings and Cities

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“…Coined by earth scientists as the epochal ‘Anthropocene’, the impacts of global warming, climate change, pollution and airborne pathogens on high-rise dwelling are not well understood. Yet densifying middle and outer suburbs in many cities will bear a significant proportion of population growth in the Anthropocene (Maginn and Anacker, 2022; Navarrete-Hernandez et al, 2022; Phelps et al, 2023). Whether and how high-rise can support more-than-human flourishing is a critical question facing rapidly densifying suburbs, and the key focus of this paper.…”

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Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Cook,

Kerr

2023

Urban Studies

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the surface the critical qualities of air – airflow, ventilation, particulates etc. – in relation to the well-being of people living in high-rise. Engineering and architectural research has burgeoned in response. However, in focusing on models of airflow, ventilation and particulates as discrete variables, engineering and architectural discourse fails to capture the diverse ways that air enters into and shapes the everyday lived experience of high-rise dwelling. Drawing on research in Sydney’s Southwestern suburbs, we reveal high-rise as an assemblage that links apartment dwelling with air, via car-dependent suburbanisation, pollution and climate-change induced temperature extremes in the Anthropocene. In addition to viruses, air teems with carbon, insects, noise and pollutants, while viscerally mediating human encounters with fluctuating temperatures. Multiple relations between people, buildings and air unfold simultaneously, confounding attempts to account for air’s elemental milieu through single variables like greenhouse gas or COVID-19. While embedded in relations of power, high-rise assemblages unleash vernacular adaptation that through low-tech and low-cost technologies work to connect suburban high-rise with evolving ecological systems. Recognising the pharmacological quality of air, as both ‘poison’ and ‘cure’, we contrast models of high-rise as encapsulated environments with resident (and other) experiments that orient high-rise to the elements, and the interlinked challenges of urban living in the Anthropocene.

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Suburbs and Suburbanization

De Vidovich

2024

The Encyclopedia of Human Geography

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Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities

Cited by 11 publications

References 66 publications

Suburban climate adaptation governance: assumptions and imaginaries affecting peripheral municipalities

Suburban climate adaptation governance: assumptions and imaginaries affecting peripheral municipalities

Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Suburbs and Suburbanization

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