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 that results 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; these include 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.

Discusses various forms of borders covering key cities in the political debate

Part 1: Background to the book.- Urbanism at borders discourse.- Part 2: Border-built environment Nexus.- Territory and water landscapes: The conurbations of Sabadell and Terrassa.- Boundary typologies and their effect on paired border cities.- The boundaries of heritage: The paradoxes of Ouro Preto.- Regional architecture in the persian Gulf: Conflicting architectural narratives of Global-local Border convergence.- Experiencing authenticity through cultural borders and experimental Ethnography.- Urban liminality: Negotiating borders and the pilgrimage to the Monastery of St. George Koudounas.- Part 3: Political boundaries and spatial segregation.- Borders for peace: Controls within a Kenyan informal settlement during political conflict.- Malaysia-Singapore geopolitics spatialised: The causeway as a Palimpsest.- Borders of Precincts: Unpacking the politics of white neighbourhood identities in the post-apartheid Black City.- India's shift to soft power in Nepal: A Case study of theborderland city of Birgunj.- Regional features of agglomeration and the antidote to Almaty's landlocked condition.- People places and relationships.- Part 4: Polarised borders cities.- Border[s]lines between isolation and connection: the disused railway in Aberdeen.- Fragile cartographies of border fictioning.- Dissonant living and building in the no-man's land on the Korean Peninsula.- Displaced: Vulnerability and survival within segregated undercaste micro-cultures.- Trailblazer of European ideal: Frankfurt (Oder) - Slubice.- Spatial transformations in Ceuta, Spain: Effects of a low-density hinterland on a border enclave.- Part 5: Praxis of border urbanism.- Programmed spaces: Redefining the border condition.- Interrogating post-conflict regeneration: A new border in Northern Ireland.- Cartographic errors.- Towards an appropriate development approach for the Halayeb-Shalateen border region of Egypt.- Contested border urbanism: Learning from the Cyprus dispute.- Part 6: Geo-politicsand social polarities.- Walk the line: Stone walls, lead mines and future farming.- Borders of convenience: European legal measures and the migration crisis.- Indian slums: The boundary of socially constructed temporal borderlands. The case of Anna Nagar, Wazirpur, Jijamata Nagar micro-cities.- A neighbourhood of fragmentation and isolation.- Edge Town / Che Fang.- Part 7: Border typologies investigated.- Border discourse: Pedagogical perspective in architecture and urbanism.