Today, suburbs and urban fringes are pivotal places for understanding contemporary urban transformations because the majority of the world’s urban population live in suburbs. Suburbanization (i.e. the process of combining the non-centric population, economic growth, and spatial expansion) and suburbanisms (suburban ways of living) are key concepts for observing these transformations, framed under the umbrella of the post-suburban theoretical framework. This paper relies on a post-suburban standpoint as it enables the complexity of the diverse transformations at the urban edges to be addressed. On such basis, this paper discusses the outcomes of a qualitative case study conducted on the most recently built neighbourhood of Fiano Romano, a suburb of Rome that has faced a number of socio-spatial transformations over the past two decades. The study illustrates the diverse complexities related to the provision of welfare services and public amenities such as water and social infrastructures. In so doing, the article unfolds the shape of a ‘new suburbia’ characterized by emerging socio-spatial changes that lie in processes of peripheralization, which characterize many contemporary post-Fordist suburban areas, especially at the present time of the coronavirus crisis. The article points out the centrality of suburban ways of living in studying issues involving both spatial planning and governance of welfare. Furthermore, the article highlights the idea that new inequalities and deprivations are taking place in diverse suburban areas, and that such aspects deserve further governance agendas able to meet the suburban social demands that differ from traditional urban vulnerabilities.

今天，郊区和城市边缘是理解当代城市转型的关键地点，因为世界上大多数城市人口居住在郊区。郊区化（即结合非中心人口、经济增长和空间扩张的过程）和郊区化（郊区生活方式）是观察这些转变的关键概念，在后郊区理论框架的框架下被框定。本文基于后郊区的观点，因为它能够解决城市边缘多样化转型的复杂性。在此基础上，本文讨论了对最近建成的 Fiano Romano 社区进行的定性案例研究的结果，Fiano Romano 是罗马郊区，在过去的二十年中面临着许多社会空间转型。该研究说明了与提供福利服务和公共设施（例如水和社会基础设施）相关的各种复杂性。在此过程中，本文展示了“新郊区”的形态，其特征在于边缘化过程中出现的新兴社会空间变化，这是许多当代后福特主义郊区的特征，尤其是在当前的冠状病毒危机时期。文章指出郊区生活方式在研究涉及空间规划和福利治理的问题中的中心地位。此外，文章强调了这样一种观点，即不同的郊区正在发生新的不平等和剥夺，这些方面值得进一步的治理议程，能够满足不同于传统城市脆弱性的郊区社会需求。