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Title:
The evolving arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development
Series:
Planning, history and the environment series
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2008
Physical Description:
xiv, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780415411561
Subject Term:
City planning -- Arab countries

Cities and towns -- Arab countries
Added Author:
Elsheshtawy, Yasser

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Summary

Summary

Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.

This collectionnbsp;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. Thenbsp;eight cities which form the core of the book - Rabat, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh - provide a unique insight into today's Middle Eastern city.

Winner of The International Planning History Society (IPHS)nbsp;Book Prize.


Author Notes

Yasser Elsheshtawy is Associate Professor of Architecture at thenbsp;United Arab Emirates University. His most recent publication is an edited book published by Routledge (2004) titled Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World. He has lectured at Harvard Design School, Tianjin University, China, and Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha.


Table of Contents

Yasser ElsheshtawyFuad K. MalkawiRami Farouk DaherSofia T. ShwayriJamila BargachMashary A. Al-NaimYasser MahgoubMustapha Ben HamoucheKhaled AdhamYasser Elsheshtawy
Prefacep. vii
Illustration Credits and Sourcesp. ix
The Contributorsp. xi
1 The Great Divide: Struggling and Emerging Cities in the Arab Worldp. 1
2 The New Arab Metropolis: A New Research Agendap. 27
Part I The Struggling Arab City
3 Amman: Disguised Genealogy and Recent Urban Restructuring and Neoliberal Threatsp. 37
4 From Regional Node to Backwater and Back to Uncertainty: Beirut, 1943-2006p. 69
5 Rabat: From Capital to Global Metropolisp. 99
Part II The Emerging Arab City
6 Riyadh: A City of 'Institutional' Architecturep. 118
7 Kuwait: Learning from a Globalized Cityp. 152
8 Manama: The Metamorphosis of an Arab Gulf Cityp. 184
9 Rediscovering the Island: Doha's Urbanity from Pearls to Spectaclep. 218
10 Cities of Sand and Fog: Abu Dhabi's Global Ambitionsp. 258
Indexp. 305