Border urbanism: transdisciplinary perspectives.

Abstract

Border Urbanism presents a global array of authors' research that tackles the perception, interpretation and nature of borders from a transdisciplinary perspective. The authors examine ways in which borders attempt to define socially, economically, politically and historically incompatible systems, from micro neighbourhoods to global macro territories, and how this blurs urban order to result in an absence of cohesion. Their analysis of contextual worldwide settings considers the unique issues and the broad scope of forces that shape borders and separate socioeconomic, political, cultural and historical polarities. The authors consider ways in which the resulting urban border conditions determine the mobility of goods, resources and people, and how these delineations define relationships that influence geopolitical relationships, socioeconomic transactions and people's lives at multiple levels. They address the temporal issues defined by a variety of unique urban conditions that result from these lateral thresholds. Each chapter contributes to a critical discourse of the subject of border urbanism and the phenomenon created by separation, demarcation and segregation, as well as by conflict and coexistence. The transdisciplinary approach of Border Urbanism ensures that it will be of interest to individuals across a spectrum of professions and disciplines. Professionals such as urban planners, designers, architects, developers, and civil and environmental engineers and students of these disciplines will be particularly interested, as will allied professionals and those not traditionally associated with urbanism, including: artists, sociologists, historians, lawyers, politicians, and civic and government leaders. The authors' global perspectives, combined with their expertise in environmental, historical, cultural, social, political and geographic areas, will appeal to anyone interested in border urbanism and its intersection with these areas.

Citation

ZAMAN, Q.M. and HALL, G.G. (eds.) 2023. Border urbanism: transdisciplinary perspectives. Cham: Springer [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06604-7

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Mar 7, 2023
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 8, 2025
• Publisher: Springer
• Series Title: The urban book series
• Series ISSN: 2365-757X; 2365-7588
• ISBN: 9783031066030
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06604-7
• Keywords: Urbanism; Borders; Liminality; Social mobility; Displacement; Urban geography
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1920314
• Additional Information: The file accompanying this book contains a single representative chapter as an extract from the full work. The whole book can be purchased from the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06604-7