This interactive and growing database is intended to support research on architecture and urbanism in Sharjah City. It was initiated in 2019 with the inaugural edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. The map includes housing, schools, and urban parks to begin the work of tracing the genealogy of typologies in Sharjah. The initial study indicates that a recourse to the considerations that shaped traditional urbanism demonstrates how social and environmental sustainability were intrinsic to the development of the architectural and urban form in the early emergence of urban centers. Typological considerations would respond to cultural, social, and physiological needs. The built environment had largely evolved from an economy of subsistence as a response to natural and physiological needs and ecological limits. In port cities such as Sharjah, these considerations included architectural elements, urban diversity and compactness, and conscientiousness towards the use of natural resources. Studying typologies over time reveals that paradigmatic shifts post 1980s from exogenous forces led to the erosion of social rituals and customs that had once translated into design considerations. While dictated by scarcity and hardship, regional vernacular typologies and their Modern interpretations that were prominent up until the 1960s were not able to evolve, scale, or grow over time with the modernization of the state nor with accumulated economic wealth. Despite currently existing in an altered state than originally conceived, these spaces provide a counter-narrative to contemporary global spatial trends and offer a living model of more ecologically responsive and inclusive urbanism. Continuity of and adaptation to these spaces could potentially allow for a layered, diverse, and economically robust urbanism.