Peri-urban Area of Galati – Risk or Positive Alternative?

Article proposes a brief analysis of the two facets of the phenomenon of suburban applied to the Galati city. Apparently confused, suburban and periurban can be considered both two stages of evolution of a territorial body and two modes of manifestation, not always mutually exclusive. For the purposes of this article, integrating contemporary views of literature on the evolution of city, suburban phenomenon presumed positive dimension, but not without risks. Conclusion based on data and cartographic material used in the present research confirms this assumption.