Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope

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Yasser Elsheshtawy
Routledge, Aug 2, 2004 - Architecture - 224 pages

Middle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of the six cities included here shows. They range from cities rich in tradition (Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad), to neglected cities (Algiers and Sana'a), to newly emerging 'oil-rich' Gulf cities (Dubai).

The authors are all young Arab scholars and architects local to the cities they describe, providing an authentic voice with an understanding no outsider could achieve.

These contributors move away from an exclusively 'Islamic' reading of Arab cities - which they regard as outdated and counterproductive. Instead, they explore issues of identity and globalization in the context of the struggles and solutions offered by each city from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Their focus is on how the built environment has changed over time and under different influences.

 

Contents

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24

Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 25
Section 26
Section 27
Section 28
Section 29
Section 30
Section 31

Other editions - View all

Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope
Yasser Elsheshtawy
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Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World
Yasser Elsheshtawy
No preview available - 2010
Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World
Yasser Elsheshtawy
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Bibliographic information

TitlePlanning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope
EditorYasser Elsheshtawy
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2004
ISBN1134410093, 9781134410095
Length224 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Architecture / General
Architecture / History / General
Architecture / Landscape
Architecture / Study & Teaching
Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Science / Environmental Science
Social Science / Regional Studies
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
  
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