This paper develops a more diverse and multi-dimensional agenda for understanding researching urban verticality. Particularly, it argues the emergence of skyscrapers, technological inventions that made this possible, impact high-rise buildings on context their interaction with it. It also draws attention to sociological aspects in perception skyscrapers both role/status advertising. The externa...

This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...

The idea of the garden began in the ancient Near East, in concert with the origins and development of agriculture, urbanism, and imperialism. From the start, exotic flora and fauna played vital roles in the world's earliest transformations of the natural environment, creating physical and metaphysical gardens of far-reaching significance. This paper examines selected aspects of exotica in Mesop...

In our article, ‘Diversifying the compact city’ (2023), we aimed to open a dialogue in human geography and beyond on how broaden scope of examine critique urbanism. The insightful constructive commentaries received generated further reflection lived experiences urbanism mutual benefits interdisciplinary collaboration city agenda. this author response, elaborate need ground research actual pract...