“In recent decades, the field of urban studies has neglected the question of the hinterland: the city’s complex, changing relations to the diverse non- city landscapes that support urban life […]. What role do spaces beyond the city play in urbanisation, and how are they transformed through this process? City-building is a process of sociospatial concentration, but its preconditions and consequences are not confined to the city’s immediate environs.The term ‘hinterland’ is used here to demarcate the variegated non-city spaces that are swept into the maelstrom of urbanisation, whether as supply zones, impact zones, sacrifice zones, logistics corridors or otherwise. Such spaces include diverse types of settlements (towns, villages, hamlets), land-use configurations (industrial, agrarian, extractive, energetic, logistical) and ecologies (terrestrial, oceanic, subterranean, atmospheric).” (Brenner & Katsikis, 2020, p.24)