The evolving Arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development / edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy.

Contributor(s):

Elsheshtawy, Yasser

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Planning, history, and the environment seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780203696798
0203696794
1134128215
9781134128211
1281394971
9781281394972
9786611394974
6611394974

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolving Arab city.DDC classification:

307.1/21609174927 22

LOC classification:

HT147.5 .E86 2008eb

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Contents:

The great divide: struggling and emerging cities in the Arab world -- The new arab metropolis: a new research agenda -- Amman: disguised genealogy and recent urban restructuring and neoliberal threats -- From regional node to backwater and back to uncertainty: Beirut, 1943-2006 -- Rabat: from capital to global metropolis -- Riyadh: a city of "institutional" architecture -- Kuwait: learning from a globalized city -- Manama: the metamorphosis of an Arab Gulf city -- Rediscovering the island: Doha's urbanity from pearls to spectacle -- Cities of sand and fog: Abu Dhabi's global ambitions.

Summary: This new collection€reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This new collection€reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.