Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism reframes urban peripheries not as the passive edges of metropolitan life but as its most generative sites — where urbanism is tested, reinvented, and projected forward.
About This Book
The periphery has long been theorised as lack — a deficiency of density, culture, infrastructure. This volume dismantles that premise. Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, and Paul J. Maginn, Peripheral Centralities positions the urban fringe as a laboratory for anticipatory urbanism, where ecological, sociological, and spatial thinking converges outside the established city core. The argument runs in both directions: peripheries are not simply shaped by centres, but actively rework urban theory from the outside in. For planners, architects, and urban theorists grappling with metropolitan growth, this is a necessary recalibration of where the action actually is.
Key Features
- 272 pages of interdisciplinary essays spanning urban design, planning theory, infrastructure studies, and political ecology
- Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, and Paul J. Maginn
- Published by JOVIS, ISBN 9783986121440
What You'll Discover
- Why urban peripheries must be understood as central — not marginal — to contemporary metropolitan life and theory
- How concepts of urban metabolism, assemblage, and political ecology apply to peripheral landscapes beyond the built city
- The relationship between peripheral development and the imagined materialities that shape how such places are planned and inhabited
- A cross-disciplinary framework that draws architectural, geographical, ecological, and sociological thinking into a single renegotiated urban theory
About the Author
Nicholas A. Phelps is the lead editor of this volume. Roger Keil and Paul J. Maginn are co-editors. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 272
- Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783986121440
- Publisher: JOVIS
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban theorists, planners, architects, and researchers working on metropolitan growth, suburban transformation, and the political ecology of cities.