Chair: Jaime Zea Usca, Mayor of Villa El Salvador, Peru
Peripheral cities have common characteristics
The cities in the periphery are complex, varied and changing realities. Although situations across the world vary, these peripheral cities share common characteristics. They are at the core of basic questions such as relations between the centre and the periphery for the governance of metropolitan areas, infrastructure, living environment, the spatial dimension of activities, regional planning, social and territorial segregation, social integration, the relationships between urgent immediate needs and long-term projections of space, democracy and the role of the citizen.
Peripheral cities exchanging experiences and practices
The UCLG Committee on Peripheral Cities, chaired by Jaime Zea Usca, Mayor of Villa El Salvador, Peru, aims to facilitate the exchange of experience and practices, and develop a common approach by peripheral cities. In March 2006, a Forum of Peripheral Cities took place where members looked at three main themes: Democratic governance of metropolises, a metropolis for all and the sustainable metropolis.
Rethinking the notion of centrality
The Committee brings together the members of the worldwide network ’Cities in the periphery & participatory democracy’. It shows the need for recognition of the social and political situations of peripheral cities within their conurbations and within the world of cities. This does not mean opposition to the ’capital city’, but rather that it is necessary to question and rethink the notion of ’centrality’ in these urban zones.
General Documents
· Bureau and Structure
· Members
· Summary of Activities and Prospects for 2007-2010 (in French)
· Objectives and Work Programme 2005-2007 (in French)
Circulars
. Circular 4 (May 2010)
. Circular 3 ( July 2009)
. Cicular 2 (April 2009)
· Circular 1 (July 2008)
Meetings
· Report of the meeting of the Committee in Belem, Brasil, January 2009
. Report of the meeting of the Working Group, 1 November 2006, Marrakech (Morocco)
· Report presented at UCLG Executive Bureau, 9 June 2005, Beijing, China
New
. Newsletter May 2010
.Newsletter April 2010
.Newsletter February 2010 of World Network "Cities of Periphery & Participative Democracy"
· Newsletter of World Network « Cities of Periphery & Participative Democracy ».
· Invitation to participate in the drawing up of the programme for Nanterre´s OLAF (FALP) 2006
