This event is cohosted by Institute for Global Sustainable Development and the Urban Institute to celebrate the new open access book "Living the urban periphery: Infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions.

This event will take place on Friday 29 November 2024 1430-1600 both in-person in the ICOSS conference room, 219 Portobello, Broomhall, Sheffield S1 4DP and online. There will be a drinks reception for those attending in-person. 

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how they are lived. This co-authored monograph draws on findings from an extensive comparative study on Ethiopia and South Africa, in conversation with a related study on Ghana. It examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the experiences of living in these changing contexts, alongside the logics driving their transformation. Through its conceptualisation and application of five 'logics of periphery', it offers unique, contextually-informed insights into the generic processes shaping urban peripheries, and the variable ways in which these are playing out in contemporary Africa for those living the peripheries.

Authors: Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow and Alison Todes

with Divine Asafo, Sibongile Buthelezi, Yohana Eyob, Jennifer Houghton, Zhengli Huang, Meseret Kassahun Desta, Tatenda Mukwedeya and Metadel Sileshi Belihu.

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