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

Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Elsheshtawy, Yasser
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Language Note
English.
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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ISBN
9780203696798 (electronic bk.)
0203696794 (electronic bk.)
1134128215
9781134128211
1281394971
9781281394972
9786611394974
6611394974
0415411564
9780415411561
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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