Conceptual and dialectical perspectives on the urban periphery

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present a conceptual discussion on the subject of the urban periphery through different approaches disseminated by the theoretical bases. The methodology focuses on a bibliographical review for conceptual analysis. The results of the research show that the concept of periphery establishes a dialogue with different areas of knowledge and constitutes approaches anchored in different propositions from geography, the humanities and the social sciences: location, analogies, differentiation, place, territory, identities, memories and landscape. It was found that the development of current research has promoted dialectics and re-significations of the concept of the periphery, revealing that centrality and "spatial and geometric" distance are no longer determining factors in the definition of the periphery. The work comprehensively highlights conceptual approaches and discursive analyses that are relevant to understanding urban spatialities and to the contemporary debate on the social representations built up in the peripheries.