List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface, and acknowledgements
1. Introduction – Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms
2. The Naming Process – Christian Topalov
3. ‘Suburb’ is not a rude word in Australia’. A lexical history of Australian suburbs – Graeme Davison
4. Doubts about ‘suburbs’ in Canada – Amy Shanks, V. Coates and R. Harris
5. Defining peripheral places in Quebec. A review of key planning reports and media (1960-2012) – Claire Poitras
6. Bombay’s Urban Edge: Villages, Suburbs, Slums, and the expanding city – N. Rao
7. Kampungs, Buitenwijken and Kota Mandiri. Naming the urban fringe on Java, Indonesia – Freek Colombijn and Abidin Kusno
8. From favela to communidade, and beyond. The taming of Rio de Janeiro – Rafael S. Gonçalves and Francesca Pilo'
9. Naming Rome’s Edge. Cultural and Political Representations of the Borgata – Francesco Bartolini
10. Naming Madrid’s working-class periphery, 1860-1970. The construction of urban illegitimacy – Charlotte Vorms
11. To name or not to name. Contradictions in naming processes of one Bucharest district – Ioana Florea
12. Some reflections on comparing (post-)suburbs in U.S. and France – R. Le Goix
13. Périurbain, from woes to words. Political and social uses of a new administrative category – Anne Lambert
14. The new neighbourhoods. The discursive (and other) transformation of South Sofia’s modest beginnings – Sonia Hirt
15. Lost in Translation: Names, Meanings, and Development Strategies of Beijing’s Periphery – Xuefei Ren
16. Concluding suggestions – Richard Harris
Contributors
