Books in the Built Environment City Studies series

This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of academics. The book examines the relationship between democracy and the (trans)formations of urban spaces in Iran.

This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. It is aimed at academics, researchers and policy-makers in urban studies.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Tasmania, 2014) under the title: Textual representations of the socio-urban history of Baghdad: critical approaches to the historiography of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development of mega-cities in Latin America and beyond.