In What’s in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.

Richard Harris is a professor in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University.

Charlotte Vorms is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Paris 1–Panthéon Sorbonne.

"What’s in a Name? does an outstanding job of assembling a conceptual framework that bridges the ostensible divide between the studies of the so-called developed North and global South. By unraveling and explaining the different usages, meanings, connotations, interpretations, and substitutes for the simple word ‘suburb,’ the book shows not only how and why local settings matter in particular ways but also how people across different contexts aspire for similar social goods and civic amenities."