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CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2021 AbstractRecent years have seen a rising interest in peri‐urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city‐regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms ...
Thomas Goodfellow +2 more
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Re-Thinking Gender, Artivism and Choices. Cultures of Equality Emerging From Urban Peripheries
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Gender dimensions of violence, and especially women’s experiences in settings of urban violence have been the subject of important feminist research, including those that highlight gender as essential for comprehensive analyses of security and urban ...
Tatiana Moura, Linda Cerdeira
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Conflicts in urban peripheries in Europe
Land Use Policy, 2023 Urbanization is a global trend which is taking place at the costs of agricultural, forest, and other natural or semi-natural areas. As a result of urbanization, transitioning zones in urban peripheries located between urban and rural areas have a mixed character from a spatial, ecological, socio-demographic, and economic point of view.
Marcin Spyra, Janina Kleemann
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Social SciencesThis paper presents an approach to decolonial thinking and epistemological disobedience through what we call “decolonial cognitive triggers”. It is based on the struggles of urban peripheral communities in Brazil and explores eight triggers in the making
Fernando Lannes Fernandes +2 more
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The political governance of urban peripheries [PDF]
Environment and Planning C: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2015 The paper introduces the challenges of this theme issue with regards to the dilemmas of political governance in upcoming urban peripheries. While becoming more and more topical in processes of urban transition and ongoing rescaling, urban peripheries struggle with the gap between the potential of new centrality and the consolidated sociopolitical ...
Federico Savini, Willem Salet
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The Peripheral Turn in Global Urban Studies: Theory, Evidence, Sites
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021 The field of global urban studies has witnessed a “peripheral” turn since the 1990s, first led by the Los Angeles School of urban geographers, with a more diverse group of urban scholars who study the global South following.
Xuefei Ren
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The Co-production of Space, Politics and Subjectivities in India’s Urban Peripheries
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021 Shubhra Gururani, Loraine Kennedy
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Modern Geográfia, 2022 In this study, the authors will attempt to highlight some details of the urbanisation of Pécs in the early 20th century by presenting the foundation of one elementary school (Gyárváros).
Muity, György +2 more
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La configuración de las periferias en las ciudades intermedias españolas durante el siglo XX: Málaga, Murcia y Valladolid [PDF]
Ciudades, 2019 The comparative reading of urban expansion in Malaga, Murcia and Valladolid during the twentieth century allows identifying common phases in the construction of their peripheries.
Fernando Miguel Carcía Martín
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Periferias urbanas moçambicanas e a sua nova paisagem
e-cadernos ces, 2022 This article seeks to show how the new landscape enters the Mozambican urban peripheries. The landscapes of the Mozambican urban peripheries were for many years characterized as consisting of precarious housing, the so-called in Mozambican urban ...
Joaquim Miranda Maloa
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