Peri-urban Change Research Articles

Effects of Population Increase on Peri-Urban Land Growth in Asa Local Government Area, Kwara State

The rapid growth of world population and its agglomeration in cities and towns around the world is affecting the longterm outlook for humanity, in such that the process of urban growth and the effect at the peri-urban areas are universal, occurring all over the world. This study aimed at assessing the effects of population increase on the growth of periurban land in Asa local government area, Kwara State. Secondary data, via satellite imageries covering 2000, 2010 and 2021 were mainly used in analyzing the changes that occurred within twenty years. Remote sensing and GIS approaches to satellite imagery processing were adopted using ILWIS and ERDAS IMAGINE 9.2 software to subset the imageries, as well used for classification resampling. The result on built-up area reveals a consistence increase of over 80% between 2000 and 2021. The vegetation cover suffered a serious loss of vegetal land to the tune over 100 hectares due to various degree of development and expansion of the town. The water body also affected with loss in space covered with 80 hectares within the period under study. With a tremendous population increase, the study indicates a high demand for land and vegetal resources, which in turns possess a serious threat to food production. The study concludes that population increase remains the most significant determinant of peri-urban changes with a resultant effect on the wellbeing of peri-urban residents and rural dwellers. It therefore, recommends the adoption and application of strategic physical planning approach in the development of the peri-urban areas.

Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne’s rural-urban interface

ABSTRACT Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the bushfire-prone City of Whittlesea on the fringes of Greater Melbourne. This location captures the complex relationship between growing population and high bushfire risk, and is the site of the country’s deadliest bushfire event, Black Saturday, in 2009. Through in-depth interviews, we observe that residents perceive insurance as playing a role in peri-urban change. Specifically, underinsurance is understood to be a challenge faced by many impacted by the Black Saturday fires, and contributes to feelings of uncertainty regarding the capacities of changing communities to work together to prepare for and recover from future fires. Our focus on insurance is informed by the need to better understand the social qualities of this dimension of disaster preparedness and recovery, and how perceptions of insurance amid peri-urban change may help produce social patterns and trends.

The wrong side of the tracks

As part of Hanoi’s recent master plan for extending ‘urban civilization’ into the surrounding countryside, officials have annexed dozens of peri-urban villages, remade local landscapes according to ‘rationalized’ forms of development and embarked on ambitious infrastructure projects to ease the city’s chronic traffic congestion and showcase the city’s modernity. Drawing upon recent ethnographic fieldwork in Phu Dong Ward—one such outlying annexed space—this paper explores how citizens experience large-scale construction projects and displacement along the city’s ever-shifting urban margins, where membership in the city and claims on its space can be tenuous, detailing just what kinds of places, and what kinds of politics, emerge in the folds of marginal urban spaces yet to be ironed into their final forms. It details the material and symbolic presence of state and capital power as manifested through invasive construction sites alongside the countervailing corporeal and economic presence of resourceful citizens remaining in their compromised communities. It shows both: (1) how displaced citizens in Phu Dong engage a politics of presence in response to construction projects by circumventing official spatial directives, conspicuously contesting eviction and compensation policies, and repurposing urban places in ways that undermine the teleology of Hanoi’s planned reform and reconstruction; and (2) how the authority of state and capital maintains its own coercive presence—both physical and symbolic—through the urban railway’s material manifestations in newly annexed sites like Phu Dong—the equipment, construction signage, rubble and battered streetscapes that accompany the project and signal the inevitability of peri-urban change.

Urban Sprawl and the Loss of Peri-urban Land: A Case Study of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand

Research has indicated that Thailand's future economic growth and industrial expansion will be relocated to peri-urban locations and secondary cities throughout the kingdom. As industrial activities extend into and transform rural areas, incompatible land use patterns emerge and produce pressures on environmental resources. This research investigates the dynamic of peri-urban growth in Sung Noen District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand. The study area represents a new-growth secondary city with one of the largest metropolitan populations for a city disconnected from Bangkok's extended metropolitan region. Our study aims to provide a systematic analysis of peri-urban change in this area. We use a hybrid classification scheme to examine multitemporal Landsat TM and Landsat ETMC data, coupled with geographic information systems analyses to help assess the loss of peri-urban land between 1990 and 2014. The result can serve as a guide to answer future research questions relating to sustainability and environmentalism within urbanization and national development.

Jurnal Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota

Urban regions worldwide are increasingly facing the challenge of dealing with highly dynamic metropolitan growth and, at the same time, institutional changes like decentralisation and globalisation. These kinds of changes express themselves most evidently in peri-urban areas, where urban and rural life meets. These peri-urban areas in particular have been the stage for rapid physical, social and economic transformations, both in developed and developing countries. Peri-urbanization takes place here. Based on literature review, this paper presents an effort to identify generic attributes of peri-urbanisation and the way in which development planning tends to reply. Three major attributes are identified: peri-urban space (the spatial expression of peri-urban development), peri-urban life (the functional appearance of land uses, activities and peri-urban innovation), and peri-urban change (a causal and temporal perspective featuring flows and drivers of change). It is also shown that prevalent institutional replies in planning and development generally fail to acknowledge the dynamic and increasingly fragmented attributes of global peri-urbanisation.

Suburbanizing Sofia: Characteristics of Post-Socialist Peri-Urban Change

In this article, I discuss the nature of peri-urban growth in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. I argue that since the end of socialism in 1989, Sofia's peri-urban growth has been driven primarily by affluent households relocating from the central city to its scenic southern outskirts in search of a higher quality of life. In this sense, the process exhibits the classic signs of Western-style suburbanization and is qualitatively different from the peri-urban development that occurred under socialism. Much of the new growth, however, has occurred within the borders of former villages and areas occupied by summer cottages (villas). These once-modest city environs now exhibit a peculiar blend of the new and the old and house two distinct social strata, affluent newcomers and poor long-time residents. I conclude with a discussion of the social consequences of recent peri-urban change and the response of the local planners.

Peri-urban transformation in South Africa: Experiences from Limpopo Province

Notwithstanding the problem of defining, and attaching meanings to, peri-urban, a great deal of work has attempted to capture the processes that underpin peri-urban dynamics; the focus being to measure peri-urban change and their outcomes. What seems to be common among peri-urban studies is the realisation that peri-urban areas are zones of rapid change. That change is often ascribed to processes of peripheral urban expansion rather than those that underpin rural change. That is to say that notions of peri-urban are premised on urban change. The question that arises from that premise is how rural change impact on the peri-urban. At the level of abstraction, this translates into whether rural change is a response to urban processes. In South Africa, the development of peri-urban peripheries is ascribed to black in-migration to former white areas and the failure of the state to police peri-urban boundaries. In contrast to the association of the emergence of peri-urban zones with the black immigrant, Cross (2001) argued that the end of influx control legislative measures that aimed to curb black urban migration did lead to rapid rural-urban migration, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal. This raises the question of the kinds of processes that account for peri-urban changes in post-apartheid South Africa. The present paper analyses local government transformation and its impact on the periurban of Louis Trichardt in Limpopo Province. The first part of the paper presents an overview of peri-urbanism in the context of South Africa. This is followed by discussion of local government transformation and the attendant re-conceptualisation of rural-urban boundaries. In the third part we present case study material to capture the impact of peri-urban changes on the ground. While endorsing the view that peri-urban transformation processes are associated with contradictions and unintended results, the paper seeks to locate the causes of those contradictions.