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Negotiating Cultures' focuses on the city of Delhi, one of the largest mega-cities in the world, and examines from a historical perspective, the process of hybridization between cultures within its local architecture and urban planning from 1912 to 1962

"Traditional approaches to space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses and ignoring its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses, and the fact that is an outcome of contextual and on-going dynamics between social actors, their cultures, and power relations. The key role of space in determining the structures of opportunities for social action, the fluidity of its social meaning and the changing degree of "publicness" of a space remains a highly neglected field of academic inquiry and professional practice. As Lefebvre identified, there are segmented and segmenting approaches to analysis and conceptualisation of space among (and within) academic disciplines, but particularly in architecture, planning and the social sciences. Four decades later, these dilemmas are still relevant. The editors believe that there is need and potential to further develop pedagogical tools that enable a more systematic reading of the micro-scale of everyday life, with its rhythms and fluidity of meanings"--

During the Cold War, architecture became a crucial signifier of competing concepts of modernization and new national identities in the "Global South". This book explores the networks and interactions in the field of architecture and construction between actors from and within socialist countries and from countries of the Global South. The authors reveal the maniforld forms of cooperation between the East, the South and the West, including the cross-border entanglements within the South and the East. Using approaches from the history of planning, construction and architectural design, they analyze many building projects against the background of economic interests, political strategies and conflicts. The scope of projects focused on involve actors from Yugoslavia, USSR and GDR to projects in Cuba, Ghana, China and Vietnam.

The relation between research and practice -- Part I: Urban morphology and planning -- Conzenian research in practice -- Conservation and (sub)urban form: Reviewing policy in Stratford upon Avon, 2004-2019 -- Part II: Urban morphology and urban design -- Towards an eclectic urban morphology -- Is there a normative science of the built environment?- Part III: Urban morphology and architecture -- Morphology and typology: The village as a cultural and environmental process.