Essay 01
Policy, Product & Process: Tracing the Lines of The Falls / Shankill Interface, Belfast

James O'Leary (Architect and Lecturer, UCL Bartlett) describes the origins of Belfast's 'Peace walls', the shaping of the residential areas through which they run, and their continued impact on the development of the city.

Essay 02
Suburban Divides: The Physical and Symbolic Segregation of Suburban Space

Therese Kenna (Lecturer, UCC) discusses the shifting methods of boundary-making since the emergence of the modern suburb and how trends in design, urban governance, and the law are undermining the possibility of a shared metropolitan future.

Essay 03
The Chaotic Fringe: Race, Space, and Place in New Jersey, Mississippi, and Indiana

Walter Greason (Dean of the Honors School, Monmouth University) highlights the conflagration of race, racism, urbanism, and economic development which persists, and is in some cases maintained by the chaotic application of zoning principles in the United States' ex-urban edge.