The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet's urban regions are living
spaces and working landscapes. Despite this we understand little about the centrality of urban
peripheries as the sites and spaces for some of the most imaginative anticipatory and
purposeful instances of urbanism. This volume demonstrates the centrality of urban peripheries
in all their variety with a view to reworking urban architectural design planning
infrastructural sociological ecological and geographical theory from the outside in. The
book also examines the relationships of these new centralities to the metabolisms assemblages
and urban political ecologies beyond the built and imagined materialities of their immediate
situation. Features pioneering writing and illustrations on designed centralities in urban
peripheries Presents a range of international examples covering most continents Offers novel
theoretical interpretations from across the built environment disciplines
