Books in the Built Environment City Studies series

This book explores the contentious geographies of innovation, productions and working spaces, both empirically and theoretically in Milan. The book provides an insight into the complexity of contemporary urban phenomena beyond a traditional metropolitan lens, highlighting issues such as rescaling, urban decentralization and recentralization.

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.

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.

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.