Suburban Planet by Roger Keil

Author:Roger Keil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2017-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

The global post-suburb is now a layered sediment of contradictory temporalities and spatialities, an assemblage of colonial and postcolonial histories and geographies. This takes wildly different forms. Let us consider two different European cases, one with a decidedly postcolonial history, Amadora, in the north of Portugal's capital Lisbon and the other post-socialist, the sprawling periphery of Belgrade in Serbia. Both are complex palimpsests of tumultuous histories, formal and informal settlement, state and market intervention (benign and punitive) and widespread self-built houses, marginal economies, blossoming gardens and damaged ecologies. If we look outside of Europe, we have as one example the Delhi peri-urb of Gurgaon, described by Gururani as one example of a larger phenomenon of urbanization in India overall:

Located at the fringes of metropolitan cities, urban peripheries represent a frenzied urbanizing frontier, a rural-urban interface that is typically characterized by mixed land-use, intense development and fragmented pockets of wealth and deprivation. Clearly, like in much of the Global South, in India, the process of peri- or suburbanization is as much about agrarian change as it is about urbanization. In most scenarios, it tends to entail a highly volatile, even violent, process of land acquisition, displacement and development.

(2013: 183)

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