periurban

From the Field

Power in the Periphery: Waste Conflict and Resistance in Periurban Kerala

Ashish Prabhakar - 6 September 2022

Ashish Prabhakar analyzes one Indian village’s fight against a city waste processing plant in 2011–2012, illustrating...

From the Field

Holding Their Own: Gilets Jaunes’ Occupation of Public Space

Antoine Bernard de Raymond & Sylvain Bordiec & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 April 2021

The Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) movement that emerged in France in the fall of 2018 was striking by dint of both...

Reviews

Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France

David Gouard & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 January 2019

In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard...

From the Field

Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?

Jean-François Valette & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 June 2018

Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods are the focus of numerous land-regularization operations. Jean-François...

From the Field

Urban Desires and Lust for Land

Éric Denis (†) & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2018

In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into financial...

From the Field

Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan

Sophie Buhnik - 7 December 2017

To cope with a rapidly spreading and now pervasive phenomenon of urban decline, Japanese authorities have actively...

Debates

“Gentrification or ghetto”: making sense of an intellectual impasse

Anne Clerval & Mathieu Van Criekingen & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 January 2015

The debate on the causes, effects and extent of the “gentrification” of working-class neighbourhoods in the central...

Essays

Another Vision of the Suburbs

Jean-Christophe Bardot & Laurent Devisme & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 May 2014

Images of the urban fringes of French cities often tend either to condemn their ugliness or to revel in a strange...

Debates

The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs

Violaine Girard & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 September 2013

Periurban areas emerged in the 2000s as “new” spaces indicative of recent changes in French society – the weakening...

Essays

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 June 2012

There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far right....

Reviews

What future for periurban communities: clubbisation or differentiated social dynamics?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 November 2011

In La ville émiettée, Éric Charmes describes the phenomenon of “clubbisation” in towns and villages in the outer...

Essays

Beyond dreams of village life: residential clubs and clubbisation

Éric Charmes & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 October 2011

At a time of increasing “metropolisation” and ever greater pressure on mobility, how can neighbourhood attachments be...

Debates

The (mis)measurement of periurbanization

Anne Lambert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 11 May 2011

(Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet defining...

Debates

Suburbanization as a Project

Martin Vanier & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 6 April 2011

Experts and policies fail to recognize the contradictions that urban sprawl creates and rarely go beyond directives....

Power in the Periphery: Waste Conflict and Resistance in Periurban Kerala

Holding Their Own: Gilets Jaunes’ Occupation of Public Space

Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France

Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?

Urban Desires and Lust for Land

Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan

“Gentrification or ghetto”: making sense of an intellectual impasse

Another Vision of the Suburbs

The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

What future for periurban communities: clubbisation or differentiated social dynamics?

Beyond dreams of village life: residential clubs and clubbisation

The (mis)measurement of periurbanization

Suburbanization as a Project

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