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The article examines the significance of informal economic practices, e.g. street vending and informal commerce, for young merchants from Ettadhamen, a neighborhood situated in the northwestern periphery of the Greater Tunis area. It further addresses cross-border trade in the Tunisian-Libyan and Tunisian-Algerian border regions in which some of these merchants are indirectly involved. Peripheralization therefore does not imply complete socio-spatial exclusion. Peripheries rather offer important, albeit limited possibilities, to acquire resources through practices that are situated in the interstices between legality and illegality. As these possibilities often avoid state regulation and control, the article also addresses the ambivalent nature of the state-society relations that shapes everyday encounters between inhabitants and state agents, especially the police.

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This paper focuses on the spatial development problem of university-led innovation in peripheral urban areas. Highlighting issues of proximity, uneven geographic development, and multiscalar urban governance as weaknesses of the regional innovation systems literature, we provide a novel synthesis of regional economics, innovation policy, and critical urban studies to assess the development roles of universities in concrete contexts. A comparative investigation of Naples and Newark, NJ captures the functional operation of regional innovation and urban development as a contested product of discourses, technologies (material and governance), and territorial arrangements. Our analysis demonstrates the significance of multi-scalar relationships in structuring innovation policy and practice in peripheral urban areas. The architecture of innovation is not simply rolled out into pre-determined spatial containers in places lacking established 'institutional thickness' or urban centrality. The spatial development of university-led innovation is a social product: material and governance infrastructures are essential components of the urban fabric and are essential to its co-constitution. Universities are shown to contribute differing resources dependent on their institutional strategic goals and the capacities and spatial imaginaries afforded to them by their situation in broader territorial governance regimes. We conclude by drawing comparative lessons and identifying directions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cities in the UK have undergone an urban renaissance since the late 1990s, when New Labour started an initiative of the same name. However, the effects of urban growth have been limited mainly to the cores of second-tier cities, creating new challenges in the urban fringe of city regions and for cities outside the major agglomerations. In this article, we examine the process of reurbanisation in the Manchester and Liverpool city regions and to take a closer look at on one of the local authorities in the fringe of these city regions which is trying to grapple with the challenges posed by a new urban age. We find increasing evidence that places in the spatial in-between of urban regions face particular challenges as a result of the urban renaissance, with the already problematic areas requiring increased attention to avoid structural urban problems similar to that of the inner urban areas in the past. * This article belongs to a special issue on reurbanisation

This paper is founded on the premise that, while banlieues and favelas do not share the same history, architecture or demography, their residents experience similar forms of stigmatization and these prompt comparable responses from writers. The comparison between French ‘banlieue narratives’ and Brazilian ‘marginal-peripheral literature’ offers an important insight into how literature produced inside vulnerable communities looks at itself and is perceived by the gatekeepers of literary institutions, and what strategies are available to writers who wish to destigmatize disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The article starts with a comparison of urban development in France and Brazil before it discusses both countries’ respective literary traditions and ways of conceiving urban and literary margins. Finally, a range of key strategies equally relevant to both contexts are discussed. The conclusion sheds light on what is universal about the experience and on the literary representation of urban disadvantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This experience report intends to present the main events in the process of construction of the popular course "Nós Por Nós", an initiative of popular education held in the city of Marília, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Throughout the year 2009, the project mobilized university students, activists of the hiphop movement and young people from different regions of the city, in a work proposal that sought to contribute to the educational formation of poor young people and interfere in the dominant dynamics in the school space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the phenomenon of Bangaloreʼs urban 'water mafias', operators who extract and deliver groundwater to scores of informal residential areas in Indian cities. The term 'mafia' here is treated as a semantic area of situated meanings and cultural interpretations that needs to be historicised and prised open in order to better understand how the urban waterscape is produced and inhabited. It situates the provenance and workings of mafias within wider debates on urban informality, state formation, and urban infrastructure and space. Rather than seeing mafias as filling a gap where government water supply has failed, as mainstream narratives suggest, the paper argues that mafias must be seen as formative of the post-colonial state. It further suggests that the specific form of public authority exercised by water mafias explains the production of informality in Bangaloreʼs waterscape. Based on ethnographic research in 2007-2009, the paper characterises the everyday authority wielded by mafias along three main registers: (i) the ability of mafias to make and break discursive and material boundaries between the formal and informal, public and private, and state and society, (ii) the varied nature of mafiasʼ political practices, ranging from exploitation to electoral lobbying to social protection to the provision of welfare, and iii) mafiasʼ complicity in both water and land regimes in a neo-liberalised urban political economy.

We studied the accessibility of public urban green spaces in the context of rapid land transformation within the urban periphery. By using Shanghai, China as a case study, we illustrated how to evaluate the access to public green spaces of an urban periphery and how planning processes can influence the improvement of such access. We constructed a composite index named the “green accessibility index” (GAI), which measures how well residents are treated in terms of access to different types of public urban green spaces. Shanghai and its districts have improved their green accessibility index from 2000 to 2010. However, the GAI in the urban periphery fell behind the city average. Furthermore, while the inner suburbs, especially Pudong and Baoshan, had fared quite well in green accessibility improvement, outer suburbs made moderate progress in comparison to the city average. We identified hot/cold spots and spatial clustering that had a high/low green accessibility index in the urban periphery. The cold spots are in urgent need of substantial improvements to green space accessibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As urban systems continue to grow worldwide, urban peripheries increase in number and typologies, which makes their planning a challenge for sustainable development. The aim of this article is to explore approaches and challenges related to the application of sustainable planning to urban peripheries. We reviewed the content of 102 papers related to sustainable planning in urban peripheries by applying a framework built on two main research questions that address: i) the type of peripheries and sustainable planning approaches considered; ii) the challenges and recommendations reported. The results show that urban peripheries are difficult to synthesize in operative classifications, and are not central in the discourse on sustainable planning approaches. The studies described are mainly context-specific and solution-oriented, aimed at responding to local socio-economic and ecological issues, and the analysis reveals uncertainties about their transferability to other geographical contexts. Few common trends can be highlighted, but many authors acknowledge the cross-cutting risks and trade-offs related to the complexity and dynamism of urban peripheries, which may eventually lead planning to unsustainable or unlivable outcomes. Integration among different scales and sectors emerges as a requirement for effective sustainable planning. We conclude with a remark on the underexploited opportunities offered by urban peripheries, especially with regard to ecological planning approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Urban development is a result of the actions of agents of production of space guided by planning models. The current dynamism imposed on the outskirts of cities, which is no longer limited to the habitation of the poor ones, encourages the development of analysis to understand the forces that act in the reproduction of the space in periphery and in the city as a whole. In recent decades we are witnessing changes regarding the use and occupation of land in the suburbs, becoming common fixing developments associated with investments which give new centrality in the cities. Existing contemporary socio-spatial practices in urban peripheries will be discussed and analyzed presenting a case study of Sorocaba city. The appreciation of the evolution of the use and occupation of territory on the outskirts occurred through the support of theoretical surveys, statistic data, cartographic resources and technical visits. This activity helped to demonstrate the main public and private strategies incorporated in the reproduction of space in the periphery and the consequences for the urban structure and the inhabitants of Sorocaba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El artículo busca identificar los factores jurídico–urbanos que condicionan la morfología y gobernanza del espacio público en la periferia del Gran Concepción colocando énfasis en el conocimiento de las estructuras de poder existentes en el área de estudio. Se postula que la geografía del poder privado y público limita la soberanía de las comunidades locales sobre sus espacios públicos dificultando la toma de decisiones y su diseño. Este análisis permite caracterizar la crisis del espacio público periférico, la que se expresa en dificultades en la gestión de riesgos de desastres, conectividad centro periferia, falta de identidad urbana y de barrio y gobernabilidad. A juicio del autor, las soluciones de fondo a esta crisis, pasan por cambios profundos en la institucionalidad urbana, que corrijan las inequidades de poder en las periferias de las grandes ciudades y en especial del área de estudio./The goal of this article is to identify the legal and urban factors that influence the morphology and governance of public spaces of the Greater Concepción’s peripheral neighbourhoods, in order to unveil the “structures of power” acting on the area. The main premise of the research is that the geography of power, both public and private, restricts the local communities’ attributes to control and design their own spaces. This analysis, by exposing the difficulties in the management of risk zones, the poor connectivity conditions between central and peripheral areas, as well as the lack of urban identity and local governance, allows us to define the critical condition in which the peripheral public space of Concepción is immersed. From the author’s stand point, the only way to solve this situation is through deep institutional changes, aimed to amend the unbalance of power in the urban governance structures of Chile’s largest metropolitan areas.

From a territorial perspective, the paper examines the current condition of metropolitan rural areas, based on the landscapes and their recent evolution in the valley of the Aburrá River which comprises the metropolitan area of Medellín. Literary narratives and folk music and its transit to the urban tradition are also employed in this study. Metropolitan rurality is characterized by social expressions and features from the physical environment. Overall the paper is oriented to produce an interpretation about the conditions and transformational dynamics of the metropolitan rurality within the Aburrá valley as the basis to define and debate this analytic category.

La aplicación a la agricultura del concepto de sostenibilidad conlleva el reconocimiento de que, conjuntamente con la función productiva, ésta desempeña otros roles (ambientales, sociales, patrimoniales) cada vez más demandados y estrechamente relacionados con su sustrato territorial. La noción de multifuncionalidad agraria lo recoge expresamente y así se sobreentiende desde otros marcos conceptuales y normativos, hasta ahora ajenos al sector, pero cada vez más interesados por los espacios de cultivo como estructurantes territoriales, depositarios de recursos patrimoniales y paisajes. Sus entendimientos del territorio son, no obstante, muy diferentes, sus escalas de análisis extremadamente dispares y sus implicaciones normativas -ora sectoriales, ora territoriales- contradictorias y redundantes. Este artículo se acerca a la multifuncionalidad agraria desde la perspectiva y los problemas del territorio, indagando puentes de encuentro entre ambos tipos de aproximaciones. A tal fin, hace un recorrido por el estado de la cuestión y el tratamiento normativo que merece el territorio desde tales perspectivas y concluye con una propuesta metodológica sustentada en los planteamientos del desarrollo territorial integrado.Applying the concept of sustainability to agriculture entails the recognition that, apart from the production function, it has other roles (environmental, social, cultural) closely linked to its territorial substratum that are in ever greater demand. This is expressly embraced by the notion of agricultural multifunctionality and is understood as such from other conceptual and regulatory frameworks which had hitherto had no connection with the sector, but which are showing more and more interest in agricultural areas as territorial structures, repositaries of cultural heritage- and landscape-related resources. Notwithstanding, the way that they understand territory is quite different, their analytical scales extremely disparate, and their implications for regulation -some sectoral, some territorial- contradictory and redundant. The present article approaches multifunctionality from the angle and the problems of territory, investigating any links there might be between the two. For this, it spotlights the current state of affairs and the regulatory treatment that territory deserves from these perspectives, and concludes with a methodological proposal underpinned by integrated territorial development approaches.

Luego de su reforma, el sistema de transporte de Santiago de Chile aparece como inadecuado a las necesidades de los habitantes de los territorios social y espacialmente marginados. Los pobladores hacen uso de sus márgenes de maniobra para compensar esta inadecuación. Sus prácticas de movilidad cotidiana y sus maneras de utilizar, subvertir o de resistir al sistema de transporte serán confrontadas a los dispositivos que las modelan. Para califcar las formas de movilidad cotidiana en un barrio pobre de la periferia meridional de Santiago de Chile, serán distinguidos tres tipos de prácticas entendidas como relaciones de poder: liberación, libertad y libración.In spite of the reforms in the transport system of Santiago de Chile, it appears that the needs of social and spatially marginalised inhabitants are not being met adequately. Tese poor city dwellers use their options for manoeuvre to ofset this inadecuacy in their daily mobility. Teir daily mobility practices and their ways of using, subverting or resisting the transport system are critically discussed in terms of the apparatus that shape the system. Tree types of practices as power relations are identifed - liberation, liberty and libration - and used to characterize forms of daily mobility in a poor district on the southern periphery of Santiago de Chile.

Cities in the UK have undergone an urban renaissance since the late 1990s, when New Labour started an initiative of the same name. However, the effects of urban growth have been limited mainly to the cores of second-tier cities, creating new challenges in the urban fringe of city regions and for cities outside the major agglomerations. In this article, we examine the process of reurbanisation in the Manchester and Liverpool city regions and to take a closer look at on one of the local authorities in the fringe of these city regions which is trying to grapple with the challenges posed by a new urban age. We fi nd increasing evidence that places in the spatial in-between of urban regions face particular challenges as a result of the urban renaissance, with the already problematic areas requiring increased attention to avoid structural urban problems similar to that of the inner urban areas in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Barcelona is one of the epicentres of the detective stories. Since Rafael Tasis, he defended the need for a multitude of story tellers who tell the greatness and misery of the city, there have been many authors who have been seduced by this geography from Manuel Pedrolo, Tomás Salvador, through Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jaume Fuster, Andreu Martin to get the most current as Toni Hill or Carlos Zanón. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores the politics of migration through a focus on labor migration regimes and the urban lives of migrants in the Seoul Metropolitan Region of South Korea. In particular, it draws attention to the ways in which migrant lives highlight the limits of the contemporary emphasis on control in migration management regimes. The paper contends that while migration management certainly reworks the socio-legal status of migrants, the desire for control is often displaced in the everyday presence and practices of migrants as urban residents. In order to develop this argument I focus on the notion of the urban periphery as a spatio-temporal configuration that manifests marginalization but is also potentially generative, innovative and destabilizing. The paper proceeds by exploring three dimensions of the periphery: (1) the mobile commons that emerges in everyday life; (2) the process of becoming undocumented and the subversion of control; and (3) the tactics of recognition that challenge the peripheral location of migrants. In each case the focus on the urban periphery draws attention to the importance of visibility and invisibility in migration, to the uneven spatio-temporal configuration of migrant lives in the city, and to the ways in which migrant desires constitute a politics that exceeds what is normatively expected of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The production of the metropolitan peripheries in Latin America has been characterized by the development of urban, residential and commercial enclaves. These enclaves encompass both large urban housing projects of social interest and subdivisions and gated communities for high-income populations. Both peripheries respond to very different social reasons but have a common spatial logic: the enclave, which deepens the isolation and social distance with its surroundings, generating segregation and fragmentation. We seek to rescue the social and spatial processes of 'enclosing' or 'insularity' in two cases: a gated community in the northeast -- Zona Esmeralda-- and a social housing urban complex in the east --San Buenaventura--, both bordering the metropolitan area of the Mexico Valley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between transport, poverty and social exclusion has increasingly held an important place in both research and policy agendas, particularly in industrialised countries. While this has helped consolidate an emerging body of theory concerned with the social consequences of mobility, our understanding of these dynamics in the context of high vulnerability and poverty in the Global South is still relatively undeveloped. Through the case of Soacha, a municipality adjacent to Colombia's capital, Bogotá, this paper explores travel strategies in a context of scarce provision of transport which, when combined with acute conditions of low-income and segregation, limit vulnerable populations' access to the city. The travel practices, perceptions and priorities of low-income populations in deprived areas of the Global South are analysed, using a framework of transport-related social exclusion, to critically examine the elements that play a role in gaining access to the city. The emergence of adaptable methods, relations and transactions between demand and supply that allows deprived populations to reduce their risk of becoming socially excluded show potential for conceptual and practical development in addressing and analysing transport-related social exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One factor that has influenced the expansion of the northern and eastern outskirts of the metropolitan area Mexico City is the massive housing development. In this paper is explored the relationship between housing policy and urban management of local governments in the growth of the urban periphery. The central thesis refers to the absence of metropolitan coordination, local governments promote housing construction in order to increase their financial resources, a situation favored by changes in housing policy in a neoliberal context, which generates a supply potential consumer by granting housing loans. From an analysis of data on housing construction, loans granted by public institutions for house purchases and amounts of tax revenue by local governments, the impact of housing policy in the expansion of the metropolitan area is analyzed. As final reflections states that housing supply, not the demand of the population, the factor that determines the location of the housing complexes, and therefore, the recent expansion of the periphery of the metropolitan area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from current debates on 'global suburbanism' and 'postsuburbia', this article explores the changes that the former 'urban periphery' of Zurich North has experienced in the last three decades. It mobilizes Henri Lefebvre's triadic concept of conceived, perceived and lived space in aid of an analysis of the profound urban transformations that can be observed. The construction of a new tramline serves as a guideline for an analysis of the implementation of new governance arrangements strengthening cross-border cooperation between individual municipalities and new strategies of cooptation and expertise. This resulted in the production of new urban structures which led to a more densely woven and connected urban fabric primarily providing spaces for the headquarter economy and middle-class housing. Concomitantly, great efforts have been made to create new public spaces, an urban image and even an urban atmosphere. These have proved at least partially successful, thus promoting a symbolic redefinition of the former urban periphery as a distinctively 'urban' space. Conventional definitions and concepts no longer suffice to adequately understand such novel urban forms, leading to the conclusion that division into an 'urban' and a 'suburban' world is no longer a useful tool for urban analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objetivo de este ensayo es responder algunas preguntas que han sido parte de viejas y nuevas reflexiones sobre la Metrópoli del Valle de México, y descubrir las nuevas tendencias que percibimos en su desarrollo. Partimos de suponer que hay confusión en la forma como se le nombra y que la visión de futuro sobre su transformación en el mediano y largo plazo pasa por un cambio importante de la función industrializadora que el modelo de sustitución de importaciones impuso a la ciudad, por otro de servicios y patrimonialista que le impone la visión postindustrial en que se ve inmersa en la actualidad. En esta transformación resalta la importancia de la periferia, dada la ubicación privilegiada que tiene en cuanto al patrimonio natural y cultural que le es propio, posibilitando así su contribución para alcanzar la sustentabilidad de la metrópoliOld and new reflections regarding Mexico Valley’s Metropolis are questioned, in order to discover new trends in urban development of the city. We assume the way in which we name the metropolis generates confusion. At the same time, there is an important transformation in the activities leading the economic development of the city. Services are taking the place that industrialization took for more than seventy years, currently adopting the leadership in the vision of the future of the postindustrial city. At the same time, natural and historical patrimonies are nowadays the main resources in order to revalue economic activities. Special mention has to be done to urban periphery, the place where growth and resources allow planning the sustainable city of the future