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Housing and the City (2022)
Book

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth-century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from t... Read More about Housing and the City.

Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study (2021)
Journal Article

Today, the concept of built heritage authenticity is a projection screen for conflicting demands and thus a ‘contested field’. Short-sighted readings started to drag the concept behind different ill-considered treatises, in which some heritage aspect... Read More about Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study.

Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities (2021)
Journal Article
Wu, X., Kou, Z., Oldfield, P., Heath, T., & Borsi, K. (2021). Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities. Buildings, 11(6), Article 252. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11060252

Informal learning spaces play a significant role in enriching student experiences in learning environments. Such spaces are becoming more common, resulting in a change to the spatial configuration of built environments in higher education. However, p... Read More about Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities.

Contested grounds; the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront (2020)
Journal Article
Fageir, M., Porter, N., & Borsi, K. (2021). Contested grounds; the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront. Planning Perspectives, 36(3), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2020.1804989

This paper explores the process by which the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront took place over the past few decades. It adopts a case study method to identify different trends and patterns and to examine their impact on the emerging urban landscap... Read More about Contested grounds; the regeneration of Liverpool waterfront.

Type, new urban domesticities and urban areas (2019)
Journal Article
BORSI, K., & Shapiro, A. (2019). Type, new urban domesticities and urban areas. Internationale Zeitschrift zur Theorie der Architektur, 24(38), 151-166

Typology can be understood as a form of principled reasoning about archi-tecture’s spatial and organisational capacities; type being both product and process working through generative analysis, classification and projection of architectural concerns... Read More about Type, new urban domesticities and urban areas.

Hans Scharoun's 'dwelling cells' and the autonomy of architecture (2018)
Journal Article
Borsi, K. (2018). Hans Scharoun's 'dwelling cells' and the autonomy of architecture. Journal of Architecture, 23(7-8), 1104-1142. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2018.1513418

The paper argues that Hans Scharoun’s articulation of the Siedlung Siemensstadt (1929 – 1931) and Charlottenburg Nord (1956 – 1961) exemplify a process of typological reasoning about how to house and group the urban population, hyperarticulating the... Read More about Hans Scharoun's 'dwelling cells' and the autonomy of architecture.

Universities and the City: from islands of knowledge to districts of innovation (2018)
Journal Article
Borsi, K., & Schulte, C. (2018). Universities and the City: from islands of knowledge to districts of innovation. Journal of Architecture, 23(7-8), 1143-1180. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2018.1514524

We are witnessing a new trend in the design of university buildings and other ‘knowledge typologies’, that is, buildings in which knowledge is produced or disseminated, such as research laboratories or libraries. Increasingly, their design inverts th... Read More about Universities and the City: from islands of knowledge to districts of innovation.

Conversations on type, architecture and urbanism: (from the ‘Architectural Type and the Discourse of Urbanism’ Symposium, Royal College of Art, London, 14th December, 2015) (2018)
Journal Article
Borsi, K., Finney, T., & Philippou, P. (2018). Conversations on type, architecture and urbanism: (from the ‘Architectural Type and the Discourse of Urbanism’ Symposium, Royal College of Art, London, 14th December, 2015). Journal of Architecture, 23(7&8), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2018.1514094

The 'Hobrecht plan' and the emergence of the urban (2018)
Journal Article
Borsi, K. (2018). The 'Hobrecht plan' and the emergence of the urban. SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal, 10(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.5937/SAJ1801047B

James Hobrecht's Berlin extension plan of 1862 and its architectural component, the Berlin block, continue to define Berlin's current urban structure. The urban structure which these graphic documents helped to deliver persisted despite being rejecte... Read More about The 'Hobrecht plan' and the emergence of the urban.

Repercussions of Singularity of Site Authorities in Making Heritage Conservation Decisions: Evidence from Iraq (2018)
Journal Article
Jasim, M. A., Hanks, L., & Borsi, K. (2018). Repercussions of Singularity of Site Authorities in Making Heritage Conservation Decisions: Evidence from Iraq. Built Heritage, 2(1), 77-91

Different global assertions have recently been made prohibiting the mono approach of decision-makers in formulating heritage conservation policies, due to many unfavourable touristic and political implications. The mono approach has led to exploitati... Read More about Repercussions of Singularity of Site Authorities in Making Heritage Conservation Decisions: Evidence from Iraq.

Do really the audience's views efficiently boost built heritage conservation policies? (2017)
Journal Article
Jasim, M., Hanks, L., & Borsi, K. (2017). Do really the audience's views efficiently boost built heritage conservation policies?

The role of the audience in re-manufacturing built heritage sites and formulating their conservation policies has often been outlawed by the full control of the site authority through its singularity in formulating these policies. Excluding the local... Read More about Do really the audience's views efficiently boost built heritage conservation policies?.

Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Notable gains have been made in understanding the factors that influence student experiences in higher education, particularly in the area of spatial configuration. Indeed, studies have found that spatial configuration affects spatial behaviour and m... Read More about Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes.

The Berlin Block and the new Bourgeois Dwelling (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Borsi, K. (2017, June). The Berlin Block and the new Bourgeois Dwelling. Paper presented at 70th Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Glasgow, Scotland

The publication of Gustav Assmann’s Plans for Urban Dwellings (Grundrisse für städtische Wohngebäude) in 1862, in conjunction with the Berlin extension plan by James Hobrecht published the same year, signaled the emergence of the Berlin block as the... Read More about The Berlin Block and the new Bourgeois Dwelling.

The role of social network analysis on participation and placemaking (2016)
Journal Article
Alvarez, L., Borsi, K., & Rodrigues, L. T. (2017). The role of social network analysis on participation and placemaking. Sustainable Cities and Society, 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.06.017

Social networks give structure to our world, are key to building social capital and can form a platform to build-up strength and ability to change; they are, however, often absent from urban studies. In this paper, the authors explored the potential... Read More about The role of social network analysis on participation and placemaking.

Dwelling cells, the city and the autonomy of architecture (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Borsi, K. (2015). Dwelling cells, the city and the autonomy of architecture.

Hans Scharoun projected his Siedlung Charlottenburg Nord of 1955 and his Siedlung Siemensstadt of 1929 as a partial realization of his urban vision for a radical restructuring of Berlin after WW2. For Scharoun, “the mechanical decentralization” as he... Read More about Dwelling cells, the city and the autonomy of architecture.

Drawing the region: Hermann Jansen's vision of Greater Berlin in 1910 (2015)
Journal Article
Borsi, K. (2015). Drawing the region: Hermann Jansen's vision of Greater Berlin in 1910. Journal of Architecture, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2015.1004619

The Greater Berlin Competition of 1910 signals a key transformation in the conception of the city. For the first time, the city was no longer drawn as a continuous bounded urban fabric, but as a set of linked and dispersed urban components distribute... Read More about Drawing the region: Hermann Jansen's vision of Greater Berlin in 1910.

Kampong Ayer: A community living on water in Brunei Darussalam (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haji Adenan, R., Rodrigues, L., Borsi, K., & Kiamba, L. (2014). Kampong Ayer: A community living on water in Brunei Darussalam. In PLEA 2014 Conference Proceedings: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies (33-40)

© Copyright: CEPT University, Center for Advanced Research in Building Science & Energy, Ahmedabad First Published 2014. All rights reserved. Land scarcity and rising population in developing countries, particularly in the urban parts of Asia, has... Read More about Kampong Ayer: A community living on water in Brunei Darussalam.

Continuity and transformation: a civic heart for Chester-le-Street (2014)
Journal Article
Borsi, K., Hanks, L., & Khoshkholghi, S. (2014). Continuity and transformation: a civic heart for Chester-le-Street. International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 9(1), 23-30. https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v09i01/36397

Current urban policy approaches to town centres can be summarised through a cleaner, greener and safer approach. At the same time, the value of place and distinctiveness has been recognised as a cultural and economic asset. Public art is seen as help... Read More about Continuity and transformation: a civic heart for Chester-le-Street.