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

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