‘ The blurring and rearticulation of urban territories. Urbanisation processes are being regionalised and reterritorialised. Increasingly, former “central functions,” such as shopping facilities, company headquarters, research institutions, prestigious cultural venues, as well as spectacular architectural forms, dense settlement patterns, and infrastructural arrangements, are being dispersed outwards from historic central city cores, into erstwhile suburbanised spaces, among expansive catchments of small- and medium-sized towns, and along major transportation corridors such as superhighways and rail lines. ‘
Finding
We’ve come to understand that the ‘constituent outside’ is part of the urban fabric and is subject to ongoing process of urbanization based on its socio -economic patterns.
