Gómez Mendoza treats periurban agriculture not as a residual land use awaiting urbanisation but as a specific territorial condition produced by proximity, pressure, exchange and changing metropolitan demand. The iconic idea is that the urban–rural edge cannot be understood through a binary opposition between city and countryside: it is a zone where productive systems, land values, planning expectations, recreation, ecological functions and urban consumption are superimposed. Her method moves between morphology, economic viability, policy and territorial transformation, insisting that periurban agriculture must be studied in its concrete configuration rather than as a generic category. This gives the work an unusually contemporary quality. The periurban field becomes a dynamic interface in which spatial position modifies the meaning of agricultural practice itself. The wider bridge is to relational urbanism and landscape planning: territorial knowledge emerges from following interactions and pressures across a shifting boundary, rather than assuming stable spatial domains in advance.
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