Peri-urban landscapes: From disorder to hybridity

Abstract

With increasing urbanization and the rise of the private automobile, peri-urban development accelerated in the Western world in the early twentieth century. Today, peri-urban landscapes are a global phenomenon spurring land-use confiicts and challenging centuries-old ideas and ideals of city and country. Peri-urban landscapes were mainly regarded as a problem within research and planning during most of the twentieth century, but a paradigm shift occurred during its last decade with the acknowledgement of the potential of hybrid landscapes. Although the study of peri-urban landscape is an interdisciplinary and scattered field (compare the literature examined in reviews by Meeus and Gulinck 2008, Simon 2008, Taylor 2011), this chapter aims for a comprehensive overview. The chapter discusses the peri-urban concept, introduces the peri-urban discourse in (primarily) Western countries, presents key recent works in landscape studies and, finally, argues the fruitfulness of detailed and critical studies of hybrid landscapes.

Published in

Title: The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

SLU Authors

• Qviström, Mattias

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203096925-46
• ISBN: 9780415684606
• eISBN: 978-0-415-09692-5

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