Jadaliyya.com's Deen Sharp's thoughts on the Suburban Revolution conference, Suburban Constellations and the challenges evaluating and grappling with suburbs and suburbanisms.

"The conference and edited volume make it clear that getting out into and engaging with the urban peripheries is increasingly important to understand contemporary patterns and processes of social life. Whether, however, we can construct an idea of a global suburb remains to be answered. More work needs to be done not just in getting out into the suburb but also connecting existing literature on urban peripheries to the idea of global suburbanism(s)."