Welcome to the website of Dr Florian Wiedmann. This website was launched to share views, news and expertise via publications and posts. The website aims to invite professionals and academics from various fields engaged in analyzing and managing urban transformation processes worldwide.

Journal Articles

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., Ibrahim, H. G. & Mirincheva, V. (forthcoming – 2017/ 2018). New housing patterns and spatial fragmentation in Gulf cities. Journal of Urbanism (accepted 13th of March).

Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F. & Ibrahim, H. G. (forthcoming – 2017). Lifestyle trends and housing typologies in emerging multicultural cities. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (accepted 8th of August).

Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F. & Ibrahim, H. G. (2017). Migrant knowledge workers’ perceptions of housing conditions in Gulf cities. Journal of International Migration and Integration, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-017-0527-z.

Salama, A. M., Azzali, S. & Wiedmann, F. (2017). The everyday urban environment of migrant labourers in Gulf Cities: the case of the old centre of Doha, Qatar. City, Territory and Architecture, vol 4, 5.

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Ibrahim, H. G. (2016). The role of mega projects in redefining housing development in Gulf cities. Open House International, 41(2), 56-63.

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Ibrahim, H. G. (2016). The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities. Open House International, 41(4).

Ibrahim, H., Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F. & Awwaad, R. (2016). A comparative assessment of housing dynamics in Abu Dhabi and Doha. International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR, [S.l.], v. 10, n. 3, p. 152-169.

Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F., Thierstein, A., & Al Ghatam, W. (2016). Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: the case of Doha, Qatar. Archnet-IJAR, 10(1), 274-324.

Remali, A. M., Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F., & Ibrahim, H. G. (2016). A chronological exploration of the evolution of housing typologies in Gulf cities. City, Territory and Architecture, 3(1), 1-15.

Salama, A. M., & Wiedmann, F. (2016). Perceiving urban liveability in an emerging migrant city. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning.

Wiedmann, F. (2015). Residential High-Rise Clusters as a Contemporary Planning Challenge in Manama. Editorial Restauro Compas y Canto. Volume 2 (4). 9-21.

Conventz, S., Thierstein, A., Wiedmann, F., & Salama, A. M. (2015). When the Oryx takes off: Doha a new rising knowledge hub in the Gulf-region? International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 6(1), 65-82.

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Mirincheva, V. (2014). Sustainable urban qualities in the emerging city of Doha. Journal of Urbanism, 7(1), 62-84.

The article presents a new approach and framework to analysing sustainable urban development. It is based on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space production. The paper was included and promoted in Taylor & Francis’s “Millennium Development Goals” campaign in 2015.


Wiedmann, F., & Salama, A. M. (2013). From pre-oil settlement to post-oil hub: the urban transformation of Doha. Archnet-IJAR, 7(2), 146-159.

Mirincheva, V., Wiedmann, F., & Salama, A. M. (2013). The spatial development potentials of business districts in Doha: the case of the West Bay. Open House International, 38(4), 16-26.

Wiedmann, F., Mirincheva, V., & Salama, A. M. (2013). Urban reconfiguration and revitalisation: public mega projects in Doha's historic centre. Open House International, 38(4), 27-36.

Salama, A. M., & Wiedmann, F. (Eds.) (2013). Unveiling urban transformations in the Arabian Peninsula: dynamics of global flows, multiple modernities, and people-environment interactions. Open House International, 38(4), 1-114.

This edition of the journal Open House International was edited by Prof. Ashraf Salama and Dr Florian Wiedmann. This issue focused on studies of urban developments in the Arabian Peninsula, particularly on new economies and resulting identities and the interaction of inhabitants with their urban environment.


Salama, A. M., & Wiedmann, F. (2013). The production of urban qualities in the emerging city of Doha: urban space diversity as a case for investigating the “lived space”. Archnet-IJAR, 7(2), 160-172.

Wiedmann, F. (2013). The verticalization of Manama’s urban periphery. Open House International, 38(4), 90-100.

Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Thierstein, A. (2012). Urban evolution of the city of Doha: an investigation into the impact of economic transformations on urban structures. METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 29(2), 35-61.


Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Thierstein, A. (2012). A framework for investigating urban qualities in emerging knowledge economies. Archnet-IJAR, 6(1), 42-56.