Governance and change on the urban fringe – special issue of Urban Research & Practice

Abstract

There is increasing interest in sociospatial and sociocultural developments on the fringes of cities. Some studies focus on the emergence of polycentric metropolitan areas and others on changes in existing suburbs and the development of new suburbs and exurbs. At the same time, development and regeneration of areas on the urban fringes increasingly take place in a context marked by deregulation, privatization, and network-like modes of coordination. It is an important challenge to explore the spatial, political, social, and cultural processes and implications of the changes taking place. The workshop Governance and Change at the Urban Fringe explored various aspects of these developments, and the results are published in this special issue.