An analysis of boundaries and boundary-making, exploring alternative definitions of bounded identities and facilitating new approaches to spatial and architectural forms.

The starting point of the collection is the emergence of a new definition of "boundary" in the Islamic world following the twentieth-century transformation of large, heterogeneous empires into a mosaic of nation-states. Showing how that new sense of boundaries not only determines the ways we imagine and construct the idea of modern citizenship, but also redefines relationships among the nation, citizenship, cities, and architecture. Contributors investigate how architecture mediates the creation and deployment of boundaries and boundedness, and how it might be considered as a means to understand the relationship between flows and boundaries and its implications for how we define the modern self.