a journal for architecture, planning, development and the environment GBER is being launched as a refereed quarterly electronic journal with a yearly printed edition. It aims to have a wide international readership comprising of architects, planners, developmentalists, environmentalists and students from both the western and the developing world. Although the main focus of GBER is the 'Built Environment' it also intends to include debates from the perspectives of the related macro socio economic, political and developmental issues. Its editorial policy particularly welcomes the views expressed through the socio culltural determinants of the present day 'multi cultural' society which influences the contemporary 'Global Built Environment'. The journal is genuinely interested in debates on the built environment of both the developing and the developed world. The idea is to foster an effective north south solidarity and provide a forum to encourage a better understanding and communication on a wide variety of built environment issues including the emerging 'globalisation and its impact on both Eastern and Western multicultural built environment'.
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Editors Tasleem Shakur Jamie Halsall Co-Editors Ayyub Malik Peer Smets Magda Sibley Language Consultant Clive Grey International Editorial Board Adrenele Awotona, Southern University Louisiana Dania Gonzalez Couret, ISPJAE Facultad de Arquitectura de La Habana Yasmin Cheema, Karachi Historic City Conservation Unite Omar Khattab, University of Kuwait Yu Li, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design Babar Mumtaz, DPU University College London Rajat Ray India,TVB School of Habitat Studies Mohd Tajuddin Bin Mohd Rasdi, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia Hulya Turgut, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kigdom.		The broad themes to be addressed by GBER include the following:
		Cities in transitions and the changing factors which affect the built environment.
		Roles, performance and limitations of the architects, planners and environmentalists towards sustainable development/environment.
		Adaptability or resistance of the people to the changing built environment through the use of popular culture.
		Role of politics, dominant culture, ethnicity, religion and consumerism (particularly the role of the MNC's) in shaping the built environment and their impact on people.
		Critical analysis of the North-South debates and perspectives of varied built environment documenting similarities, uniqueness or global interdependence.

Editorial correspondance, including submissions should be sent to: Dr. Tasleem Shakur FRSA, Director ICDES, Edge Hill, St. Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP, U.K. Email: shakurt@edgehill.ac.uk Tel: (+44)(0)1695 584551 Tel/Fax: (+44)(0)1695 584573

GBER has also formed a mailbase to encourage enthusiastic dicussion between members. Here you will find discussions on the latest issues and information on conferences etc. To join the GBER mailbase send an email message to jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk with this command in the body of your message: join GBER FIRSTNAME LASTNAME where FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME are your own personal names. Please feel free to download and print the flyer for the journal  GBER Pdf

	Disclaimer The views expressed in this journal are those of the authors and DO NOT necessarily represent those of ICDES, GBER or Edge Hill. Copyright © Edge Hill University 2006