The Analogical Edge: Infrastructure and the architecture of the periphery Part 2 Dissertation 2025 Archie Read University of Dundee | UK In The Architecture of the City (1966), Aldo Rossi positions the city as a collective artefact shaped by memory, permanence, and typology in response to the reductive logic of modernism. Yet, he does not discuss the periphery of the city. Instead, the emergence of the periphery from post-war planning served as the context that necessitated his redefinition of the centre. Today peripheries only continue to sprawl such as in Glasgow whose radical post-war planning dominated by political rivalry resulted in an unprecedented peripheral expansion that simultaneously eroded the centre, fractured the landscape and isolated existing social patterns. Thus, Rossi’s research is revisited, questioning if his theories redefined the centre in response to reductive planning, could they now be used to understand and challenge the development of the periphery through analogical thinking, or rather, an architecture of the periphery?However, peripheral landscapes lack the legibility and typologies of centres. Rossi’s framework must therefore be extended and intersected with alternative methodologies, such as the photographic analysis of car-centric form conducted in Learning from Las Vegas. The Forth and Clyde Canal, an infrastructural edge between city, periphery, and agriculture, becomes the critical site through which to think otherwise on the development of the periphery. Tutor(s) Lorens Holm