Urban Megaprojects and the Architecture of Competitive Authoritarianism

This book presents how urban megaprojects uniquely expose the complexities of competitive authoritarianism. Through an analysis of Skopje 2014, it argues that accelerated, symbolically charged urban transformation reveals how such regimes govern space, manage constraint, and assemble power through the intertwined dynamics of implementation, ideology, and resistance.

The book offers conceptual and e...