The Dialectics of Urban and Architectural Boundaries in the Middle East and the Mediterranean

Part 1: Urban and rural.- Assessments of Edirne's past, present and future as a border city.- The porosity of borders: Between formal and informal urban patterns.- Borders defining urban enclaves: Case studies from Istanbul.- From Galata to Pera: Shifting borders in Ottoman society (1453-1923).- Part 2: Global and local.- On the "Borderline" of global and postmodern: Forms, images, metaphors in architecture.- Culture and identity in the global context: Transformation of locality.- Small markers with wide borders: Augmenting urban space with new media.- Rethinking the paradigm of high-performance design: Setting new borders between vernacular and contemporary approaches.- Part 3: Physical and sensual.- fading boundaries: School design to support learning in-between the classrooms.- Here today gone tomorrow: The invisible boundaries of periodic markets.- Future sociability in public spaces.- Mapping borders in urban aesthetics: A brief history of reasoning urban aesthetics since early modernism.- The border between perceptual and physical urban Space: An aural encounter.- Epilogue.