Book review of: Phelps, Nicholas A.; Keil, Roger; Maginn, Paul (eds.) (2025): Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs Phelps, Nicholas A.; Keil, Roger; Maginn, Paul (eds.) (2025): Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism Authors Lorenzo De Vidovich Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (Italy) image/svg+xml https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6818-1176 (unauthenticated) DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.4068 Abstract Book review. Downloads Download data is not yet available. References Brenner, N.; Schmid, C. (2014): The ‘Urban Age’ in Question. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38, 3, 731–755. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12115 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12115 Dodson, J. (2014): Suburbia under an Energy Transition: A Socio-technical Perspective. In: Urban Studies 51, 7, 1487–1505. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013500083 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013500083 Lessard, G.; Bérubé, H. (2026): Selling high-density housing in post-suburbia: Between a natural idyll and putting faith in future (re)developments. In: Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2026.2685621 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2026.2685621 Keil, R. (ed.) (2013): Suburban constellations: Governance, land and infrastructure in the 21st century. Berlin. Keil, R. (2017): Suburban planet: Making the world urban from the outside in. Cambridge. Phelps, N.A.; Parsons, N.; Ballas, D.; Dowling, A. (2006): Post-Suburban Europe. Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe’s Capital Cities. London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625389 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625389 Simone, A. (2004): People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg. In: Public Culture 16, 3, 407–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-407 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-407 Tzaninis, Y.; De Vidovich, L. (2026): A continent of suburbs: Europe’s unseen post-suburban revolution. Toronto. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487551292 Tzaninis, Y.; Mandler, T.; Kaika, M.; Keil, R. (2023): Introduction: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency. In: Kaika, M.; Keil, R.; Mandler, T.; Tzaninis, Y. (eds.): Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency. Manchester, 1–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526168016.00007 Downloads PDF HTML XML Published 2026-10-05 Issue Online First Section Book Review License Copyright (c) 2026 Lorenzo De Vidovich This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.De Vidovich L. Book review of: Phelps, Nicholas A.; Keil, Roger; Maginn, Paul (eds.) (2025): Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs Phelps, Nicholas A.; Keil, Roger; Maginn, Paul (eds.) (2025): Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism. RuR [Internet]. 2026 Oct. 5 [cited 2026 Oct. 7];. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/4068 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Share
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