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The perils of premature globalisation and the birth of megacities: social exclusion and spatial injustice in Dhaka. (2024)
Book Chapter
ZAMAN, Q.M. 2024. The perils of premature globalisation and the birth of megacities: social exclusion and spatial injustice in Dhaka. In Shakur, T. and Ghafur, S. (eds.) Megacities of the Global South in the 2020s: growth transformations, contested/negotiated spaces and changing liveabilities. Global built environment review, Special Issue 2024. Ammanford: Open House Press (Global Built Environment Review), pages 9-21.

Megacities and globalisation are two global, connubial phenomena. Asian and Latin American cities dealt with globalisation prematurely, hastily transforming into mass producers to serve global consumers. Since the late 20th century, these cities emer... Read More about The perils of premature globalisation and the birth of megacities: social exclusion and spatial injustice in Dhaka..

Border(s)lines between isolation and connection: the disused railway in Aberdeen. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZECCA, C. and LAING, R. 2023. Border(s)lines between isolation and connection: the disused railway in Aberdeen. In Zaman, Q.M. and Hall, G.G. (eds.) Border urbanism: transdisciplinary perspectives. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 14, pages 245-266. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06604-7_14

Abandoned railways allow an interpretation of urban borders by considering different scales of connection and separation. The former railway line in Aberdeen is used as a case study to explore how urban linear connections represent a defining linear... Read More about Border(s)lines between isolation and connection: the disused railway in Aberdeen..

Border urbanism: a critical discourse. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZAMAN, Q.M. 2023. Border urbanism: a critical discourse. In Zaman, Q.M. and Hall, G.G. (eds.) 2023. Border urbanism: transdisciplinary perspectives. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 1, pages 3-26. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06604-7_1

This opening chapter overviews the purpose of the book. A global initiative on border urbanism research and interdisciplinary collaboration began in 2016, bringing researchers from 28 countries together to discuss various border-related issues at an... Read More about Border urbanism: a critical discourse..

Pursuing resilience in architectural design through international experimental projects: exploring new boundaries in the design studio pedagogy. (2017)
Book Chapter
BASSANESE, S., RODEGHIERO, B. and ESPANYOL, A. 2017. Pursuing resilience in architectural design through international experimental projects: exploring new boundaries in the design studio pedagogy. In Zaman, Q.M. and Troiani, I. (eds.) Transdisciplinary urbanism and culture: from pedagogy to praxis. The urban book series. Cham: Springer [online], pages 23-39. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55855-4_4

In response to the current global crisis, there is a growing demand for responsible behaviour in designing and building that can accommodate user needs through the design process. This chapter describes an innovative approach to the design process ai... Read More about Pursuing resilience in architectural design through international experimental projects: exploring new boundaries in the design studio pedagogy..

Reflection 1 the city: a shift in mindset? (2017)
Book Chapter
MCCLEAN, D. 2017. Reflection 1 the city: a shift in mindset? In Zaman, Q.M. and Troiani, I. (eds.) Transdisciplinary urbanism and culture: from pedagogy to praxis. The urban book series. Cham: Springer [online], pages 13-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55855-4_2

Human migration to urban centres is at an unprecedented level, prompting searching questions about their design and enablement, politically, economically, technologically, or socially. Rapid urban development is laying challenge to existing paradigms... Read More about Reflection 1 the city: a shift in mindset?.

Reflection 2 shifting research paradigms: urbanism and culture. (2017)
Book Chapter
LAING, R. 2017. Reflection 2 shifting research paradigms: urbanism and culture. In Zaman, Q.M. and Troiani, I. (eds.) Transdisciplinary urbanism and culture: from pedagogy to praxis. The urban book series. Cham: Springer [online], pages 17-20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55855-4_3

The themes of this book are important and timely, and reflect the increasingly cross-discipline manner in which challenges faced in the built environment must be addressed. This has been reflected of course in the calls and projects supported by majo... Read More about Reflection 2 shifting research paradigms: urbanism and culture..

Introduction: transdisciplinary urbanism and culture. (2017)
Book Chapter
ZAMAN, Q.M. and TROIANI, I. 2017. Introduction: transdisciplinary urbanism and culture. In Zaman, Q.M. and Troiani, I. (eds.) Transdisciplinary urbanism and culture: from pedagogy to praxis. The urban book series. Cham: Springer [online], pages 3-12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55855-4_1

This book originates from the contemporary research approach and ideology centred on inter-disciplinarity to examine issues in urbanism and culture. The crux of that research lies at the heart of academic institutions, in particular the way in which... Read More about Introduction: transdisciplinary urbanism and culture..

Explorations of an urban intervention management system: a reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change. (2016)
Book Chapter
MIGUEL, M.A.G., LAING, R. and ZAMAN, Q.M. 2016. Explorations of an urban intervention management system: a reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change. In Caldwell, G.A., Smith, C. and Clift, E. (eds.) Digital futures and the city of today: new technologies and physical spaces. Bristol: Intellect [online], chapter 11, pages 193-214. Available from: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo23353147.html

Concerns over how we plan and manage urban development have grown as a result of unpredictable and rapid conditional changes in postmodern cities. This chapter explores the shifting contexts of urban environments which change in an increasingly frequ... Read More about Explorations of an urban intervention management system: a reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change..