Examining Everyday Outdoor Practices in Suburban Public Space: The Case for an Expanded Definition of Care as an Analytical Framework

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Most urban research takes place in major cities or rural areas, leaving out the difficult task of defining peripheral, suburban areas in theoretical debates on the future of cities (Keil 2018). This has led to a tradition of historically considering the suburban as monolithic, universally ‘bad’ places, and/or reducing them to caricatures (ibid. 2020). This perspective, however, is changing, with the recognition of suburbanization as a global process and phenomenon, and the realization that the suburbs are hyper-diverse, complex places that deserve study, which focuses on their lived experiences, and upends the centralist bias (ibid. 2018, 2020; Pitter and Lorinc 2016). This changing perspective highlights an important gap—the need for better theorizing and understanding of everyday life for marginalized and vulnerable populations in these suburban areas (Lo et al. 2015)."