Built Environment City Studies
About the Book Series
The Built Environment City Studies series provides researchers and academics with a detailed look at individual cities through a specific lens. These concise books delve into a case study of an international city, focusing on a key built environment topic. Written by scholars from around the world, the collection provides a library of thorough studies into trends, developments and approaches that affect our cities.
Seville: Through the Urban Void
1st Edition
By Miguel Torres
January 21, 2023
Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, ...
Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces
1st Edition
By Corinna Del Bianco
December 19, 2022
Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique. Self-built houses born from need, in haste and with limited economical resources are often considered to be temporary structures but ...
Glasgow: High-Rise Homes, Estates and Communities in the Post-War Period
1st Edition
By Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley, Valerie Wright
February 01, 2022
In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums. Adopting the designs, the materials and the ...
Baghdad: An Urban History through the Lens of Literature
1st Edition
By Iman Al-Attar
September 30, 2020
In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city. This book moves away from these perspectives to present an interdisciplinary exploration into the urban history of Baghdad through the lens of ...
Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City
1st Edition
By Klaus Philipsen
September 27, 2018
Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City is an exploration into the reinvention, self-reflection and boosterism of US legacy cities, taking Baltimore as the case study model to reveal the larger narrative. Author Klaus Philipsen investigates the modern urban condition and the systemic ...
Amman: Gulf Capital, Identity, and Contemporary Megaprojects
1st Edition
By Majd Musa
August 09, 2018
Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have significantly transformed the city’s built environment. Therefore, to understand urban transformation in Amman during this period it is important to ...