Suburban Development and City Extensions

Henriette Bertram, Angela Million and Uwe Altrock
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Henriette Bertram: Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Angela Million: Department of Urban Design and Urban Development, TU Berlin, Germany
Uwe Altrock: Chair of Planning Theory and Urban Regeneration, University of Kassel, Germany

Urban Planning, 2026, vol. 11

Abstract: This thematic issue focuses on newly planned and currently transforming districts at the outskirts of major metropolitan areas in Europe. After reurbanisation and inner development dominated urban research debates as well as planning practice from the turn of the century onwards, in the wake of continuing influx into large cities and a subsequent shortage of affordable housing, suburbanisation is coming back into focus. The contributions in this thematic issue are clustered within three key thematic areas: (a) sustainability and the planning of urban expansion, (b) planning imaginaries and the realities of suburban living, and (c) governance, conflict, and negotiation. The contributing authors have analysed case studies in Spain, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, and Germany. While each case is different and analysed through a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, all show that suburbanisation is a timely and highly relevant topic that serves as a powerful lens for making current planning ideals and guidelines, contradictions and challenges, as well as societal power relations visible.

Keywords: city extension; governance; housing pressure; planning imaginaries; social infrastructure; suburban living; suburbanisation; sustainability; urban density; urban peripheries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.17645/up.13365

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