Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the fields of…
- Urban Sprawl, peri-urbanisation, (post)suburban growth and/or decline
- Emerging models of suburban regeneration and retrofit
- Suburban infrastructure and transformations of fringe/belt areas of city-regions
- Interstitial spaces, vacant lands, white spaces, boundary spaces and (post)suburban politics and planning.
Current Research Opportunities
- Exploring the sprawling suburbanisation of the countryside and changes in dispersed rural settlement patterns of Northern Ireland
- The place of interstitial spaces in cities and the urbanisation process
Public outreach & key achievements
- Last publications: SILVA, C. (2020). The rural lands of urban sprawl: Institutional changes and suburban rurality in Santiago de Chile. Asian Geographer, 37(2), 117-144: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10225706.2019.1701505
- [Urban Studies Best Paper 2018] PHELPS & SILVA (2017) Phelps, N. A., & Silva, C. (2018). Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices. Urban Studies, 55(6), 1203-1222: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0042098017732714
- SILVA, C. (2019). The interstitial Spaces of Urban Sprawl: Unpacking the Marginal Suburban Geography of Santiago de Chile. In: Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America (N.H.D. Geraghty and A.L. Massidda, Eds.). Institute of Latin American Studies Publisher (ILAS), UCL, London. Pp. 55-84. CC-BY-NC-ND licence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvp2n322.7?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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