Focusing in on fringe urban spaces

Abstract

Within DeVerteuil's lopsided city are spaces in which creative and combative place-making persist. Guma most recently and within the pages of this very issue of Dialogues in Urban Research identifies such spaces as those produced by “urban populations, in situ,” noting their “forms of hustling in fringe positions” as they fight against displacement by gentrification in the global South, as well as against the dizzying effect of the lopsided city wrought by neoliberal exploits. However, such spaces get obscured within the metaphorical imbalance of the lopsided city, where the nooks, crannies, cuts, and fringes that house everyday life can otherwise be revealed through up-close and personal urban analysis.