He thus opposes, as it has been said, round to cubic structures, curves to straight lines, the vertical to the horizontal, the mobile to the static, the natural to the artificial, etc.; and he opposes, to sum up, the peripheral suburb to the city center (though things are not going well for this one either).
In general, families of North African origin cluster in the poorer northern quarters or, increasingly, in the peripheral banlieues (suburbs) surrounding the capital.
The anisotropy is essentially in opposite directions from the center, thus showing a strong bias towards the suburbs essentially for peripheral rather than for central centers.
Peripheral areas are emphatically not the same as suburbs: you move to the suburbs out of choice, once you have weighed up the cons against the pros.
CMCHCH is a hospital in a peripheral district and JMCHCH in the suburb of Shanghai.
Public and private strategies shift the demand for growth from outer suburban and peripheral areas to existing central cities and inner suburbs so that growth is more evenly spread and takes advantage of existing infrastructure.
The results showed that the pattern of urban functional landscapes and population density in the urban functional zones (Urban center, Urban peripheral area, Landscape barrier, Satellite city and Far-suburb) along the urban rural gradient in Xiamen doesn't totally conform to the classical theories in spatial and social aspects.
In order to explore intra-urban inequalities and the interlinked deprivations encompassing urban poverty, the survey sample was divided between one purposively selected peripheral urban, informal settlement and an inner-city area made up of three purposively selected suburbs in the dense inner city.
7 (bedroom of an isolated villa), no. 8 (bedroom of an isolated villa quite aerated, built about 20 years ago), and no. 2 (a peripheral studio of a fully renovated apartment with good air circulation, located in a little suburb) have markedly lower total PAEs concentrations than those of environments widely used throughout the year.
The original industrial suburbs of Melbourne had a central location, but many new factories have been constructed in peripheral areas, such as Altona, Dandenong, Broadmeadows, and Moorabbin, where larger areas of cheaper land were available.
