We study the transverse charge and current densities in the periphery of the
 nucleon where they are governed by universal chiral dynamics. The large 
distance asymptotics of the densities are derived from the spectral functions 
of the Dirac and Pauli form factors near the threshold at t=4M_pi2 obtained 
from invariant chiral perturbation theory. In the equivalent light front 
formulation, the peripheral densities arise from large size piN configurations 
in the nucleonĮs light front wave function obtained from the chiral Lagrangian.
 We compute the chiral component of the charge and current densities and 
explain their order of magnitude in the chiral expansion. We also discuss the 
role of pi Delta intermediate states in the large Nc limit and the heavy 
baryon expansion of peripheral densities, and comment on progress extending an 
analogous analysis concerning transverse densities from form factors of the 
energy-momentum tensor and its connections with studies on GPDs.