The intersection of rapid peripheral urbanisation, profound climate impacts, and sharply growing inequalities has placed our existing conceptual frameworks and approaches in disarray. While we have a rich body of research examining each of these domains independently, we lack two vital understandings. First, how do we make sense of the intersection between these processes, particularly at the rapidly growing urban periphery? Second, what does understanding this intersection mean for working towards ‘the good city’?
In November 2023 and January 2024, Andrew Tucker, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (South Africa), Shriya Anand, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (India), and Colin McFarlane, Durham University (United Kingdom), curated a new seminar series entitled Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.
This seminar series offered participants a way to create a series of open-ended conversations that enabled them to ‘step back’ and reflect, in an open-ended, dialogic way, to make sense of this intersection and what do about it. This book of abstracts is an output from some of the participants in the seminar series.
