Today’s peripheries cannot merely be seen as sparsely populated, rural areas, situated somewhere on the edge of a territory, as clichés will have it. Rapidly expanding urban sprawl, suburban and exurban expansion, or development along corridors of communication within and between urban regions, produce new inequalities in accessibility. This produces notions of "edgeness’" peripherality and selective exclusion. The notion of active processes of "peripheralisation" as the outcome of an urban-centric spatial selectivity, and a division of space into economically "attractive" (urban) and "unattractive" (non-urban) opportunities opens up new perspectives to a better understanding of current disparities in spatial development within and between cities, and likely policy answers that may be required.
The sessions aims at furthering the conceptual debate on "peripheralisation" in the context of a growing urban lens through which to see and evaluate economic space, thus effectively constructing inclusions and exclusions, i.e. cores and peripheries.
Participants Session 1 – Concept and Policy
- Manfred Kuhn (Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner, Berlin Germany): „Periphery and Peripheralisation – Concepts of Space“
- John Harrison (Loughborough University), Jesse Heley (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University): „Governing beyond the metropolis: placing the rural in city-region development“
- Mike Danson (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh): „Rebalancing theory and policy between periphery and core: what role for the triple helix and macro-region?“
Discussant: Tassilo Herrschel (University of Westminster)
Participants Session 2 – Comparative Practice
- Tassilo Herrschel (University of Westminster): „City Regions, Peripheralisation and the Shift to Post-(Territorial) Regionalism (?)“
- Nadir Kinossian (University of Tromsø/Cardiff University): „Urban agglomerations in Siberia: tackling peripherality by aggravating spatial disparities?“
- Konstantina Isidoros (University of Oxford): „The centrality of the Sahara Desert – nomad's unmaking of the peripheral“
Discussant: Manfred Kuhn (Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (Erkner, Germany)
Organisers
Tassilo Herrschel, University of Westminster (London, UK); Mike Danson, Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland); Thilo Lang, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (Leipzig, Germany)
More information
A provisional timetable will be available from late April on the conference website »
Contact
Thilo Lang
Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
T_Lang(at)ifl-leipzig.de
Tel. +49 341 600 55-159
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Imperial College London
