Urbanization today, now that it has become generalized, is mainly suburbanization in its
manifold differentiation. As suburbanization becomes the form and suburbanism becomes …

Based on presentations across two days as part of an Urban Studies Foundation-funded
seminar series, we elaborate a thematic agenda for considering the centrality of urban …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present
urbanization is often referred to as an'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth …

Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of 'cities' as
ontological entities separate from 'nature'and on how the production of settlements is …

Urban sprawl is widely considered to be a major issue for the functioning of urban areas,
threatening long-term sustainability and affecting the quality of living. The aim of this …

The 21st century has been declared the 'urban century'now that a majority of the world's
population live in cities. A number of nations have been highly urbanised since at least the …

Recent decades have seen a rising interest in the peripheral nature of urbanization
processes. While research has put the spotlight on large‐scale, transnational and …

Over the last two decades, suburban studies have emerged from a call for a new conceptual
order to go beyond the traditional dichotomies of the urban realm, namely, the centre …

Capitalist private property in land and buildings–real estate–is the ground of modern cities,
materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to …

This special issue examines the intersection of global suburbanization and Asian urbanism.
The papers provide a perspective from the examination of peripheral areas in fast growing …