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Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South


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The nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are collectively known as the Global South, which includes practically 157 of a total of 184 recognized states in the world according to United Nations reports. It is argued that most of the efforts in architectural and urban production, place making, place management, and urban development are taking place in the Global South and will continue to be so over the next several decades.

The Global South continues to experience a multitude of influences. Architecture and urbanism have experienced dramatic transformations that instigated critical questions about urban growth, sustainable development, regenerating and retrofitting cities, the quality of urban life, health, liveability, identity, multiculturalism, among others. In some regions within the Global South, architecture and urban environments are developed in tandem with environmental degradation, ethnic and regional conflicts and mass displacements of refugees, political and economic instability, among other undecorated realities. In essence, this conveys a sharp dichotomy that is emerging as a new field of investigation, discourse, and writing.

Within the severe duality of transformations in the Global South, this series aims to depict and capture architectural and place production and to portray it to the global professional and academic community. The series places emphasis on architecture and urbanism of cities and settlements in the Global South which is defined geographically to include key capitals, major cities, and important settlements within Africa, the Arabian peninsula, the Indian Sub-Continent, the southern Mediterranean and the Middle East, South America, and South Asia.

Written by international experts and researchers, the volumes will cover a wide spectrum of topics that range from vernacular architecture, architectural heritage, urban traditions, explorations of the works of global south and international architects, to themes that include the architecture of squatter settlements, housing transformations, urban governance, the impact of globalization on cultural identity as manifested in architecture, and sustainable urbanism.

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Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan

Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Suneela Ahmed
October 14, 2022

This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it. Thus, the investigation, using the local terminology maqamiat,...

Urban Form and Life in Tripoli, Libya Maintaining Cultural Heritage

Urban Form and Life in Tripoli, Libya: Maintaining Cultural Heritage

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Adel M. Remali, Huyam Abudib
October 14, 2022

This book charts the city of Tripoli’s rapid economic, environmental and physical transformation, investigating how these new developments have failed to incorporate the cultural and historic values of the urban fabric. As a result, the city is juxtaposed between traditional and modern urban forms....

Architecture and Urban Transformation of Historical Markets: Cases from the Middle East and North Africa

Architecture and Urban Transformation of Historical Markets: Cases from the Middle East and North Africa

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Neveen Hamza
September 02, 2022

This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended ...

Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture

Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Marwa M. El-Ashmouni, Ashraf M. Salama
July 22, 2022

This book is an effort towards an in-depth understanding of the architectural discourse in Egypt developed over more than eight decades. It offers a distinctive theoretical interpretation of the forces shaping the kaleidoscopic shifts in Egyptian architecture through the analysis of the micro space...

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela Government, Infrastructure and Environment

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela: Government, Infrastructure and Environment

1st Edition

By Fabio Capra Ribeiro
November 03, 2020

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements. To do so, it focuses on three metropolitan areas located in Venezuela’s Center-North region: Caracas, ...

Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies Distinction through the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies: Distinction through the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

1st Edition

By Ashraf M. Salama, Marwa M. El-Ashmouni
July 16, 2020

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, developed over more than three decades. At the core of the discussion are the efforts, processes, and outcomes of the Aga Khan Award for ...

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