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Revitalising Urban Peripheries

open access: yes, 2021
Through urban expansion, cities have continued to generate new peripheries, but these are no longer included in a common, comprehensive project as would have occurred – albeit in a subordinate way – at the time of the industrial city.
Molinari P.
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Living the urban periphery

open access: yes
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them.

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Peripheries, Searching the informal modernity of urban peripheries

open access: yes, 2012
contribution à un site webIntroduction : Most of the cities of the world are somehow at large in the sea of modernity. The landscape of urban peripheries is anything but coherent.
Cremaschi, Marco
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Embodying Peripheries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries.
Gallerani, Guido Mattia
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When Modern Housing Built Optimistic Suburbia: A Comparative Analysis Between Lisbon and Luanda

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2022
Throughout the 1960s, the urban peripheries in several Portuguese colonial cities embarked on a profound process of transformation. With different urban histories and distant geographical contexts, Lisbon and Luanda were united by urban planning and ...
Inês Rodrigues
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Mapping Peripheries: Urban Ethnographic Maps as Graphic Tools

open access: yesimg journal, 2021
The crisis of the boundary line and the consequent determination of the peripher­ies from a geometric point of view entails a crisis in representing urban boundaries and thresholds, and therefore the peripher­ies themselves.
Michele Valentino
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What’s the Value of a House: Wait, Struggle, and Improvement in a Militia-Controlled(?) Area in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022
This paper discusses valuation regimes of houses in a militia area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken during the construction of a highway between 2012 and 2016, we propose considering removal processes as sociological objects ...
Marcella Araujo, Daniela Petti
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Trasgressive, ribelli e perdute: frammenti di periferie reali e immaginarie nella narrativa urbana turco-tedesca contemporanea

open access: yesGeography Notebooks, 2022
This paper focuses on the representation of German urban peripheries in Turkish-German contemporary urban fiction. Through the analysis and comparison of two novels written by contemporary German novelists with Turkish origins – Der die Träume hört (2019)
Sara Giovansana
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Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Book review by Maxwell Hartt of Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems, Daniel P.
Hartt, Maxwell
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Ordinary Spaces and Public Life in the City of Fragments

open access: yesIn_Bo, 2013
The Urban Design Studio held in the fall 2012 within the International Curriculum in Architectural Design at the University of Florence coped with the design of peripheries.
Giulio Giovannoni
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