Overview
- Takes a fresh look at contemporary and traditional urban and cultural theories
- Includes a set of new case studies linking urban theories to enhance readers understanding of emerging focus areas in urban research
- Serves as a catalyst for new discourses and debates among researchers and practitioners to encourage transdisciplinary dialogues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Background: Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture
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Pedagogy and Built Environment
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Philosophy and Built Environment
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Sociology and Built Environment
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Praxis and Built Environment
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Quazi Mahtab Zaman (PhD) is an architect, urban designer and academic, currently teaching architecture and urban design theory and practice and the course leader for BSc Construction Management at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He researches ‘children in city’ and has introduced a new participatory pedagogy and practice: ‘community as extended classroom’; researching on ‘urban interface’ and ‘theorizing congestions in cities in developing countries’. He serves on the editorial board of Open House International and Global Built Environment Review. He has been Steering Group member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) since 2012.
Igea Troiani (PhD) is an academic and architect-filmmaker. She is founding director of the research film company Caryatid Films and of the Oxford based architectural practice Original Field of Architecture Ltd. She is co-editor of The Politics of Making and i
s founding editor-in-chief of the international award-winning journal Architecture and Culture: Journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA). She was Chair of AHRA from 2009-2012 and has been a Steering Group member since 2006. Her teaching, textual research and film making as research practice center on the positive exchange between disciplinary and trans-disciplinary knowledge in Architecture Humanities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture
Book Subtitle: From Pedagogy to Praxis
Editors: Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Igea Troiani
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55855-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55854-7Published: 27 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85765-7Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55855-4Published: 07 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Cultural Theory, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban History