The evolving Arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development /
The evolving Arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development /
edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy
- London : Routledge, 2008
- xiv, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
- Planning, history and environment series .
- Planning, history, and the environment series .
The great divide : struggling and emerging cities in the Arab world / Yasser Elsheshtawy --The new Arab metropolis : a new research agenda / Fuad K. Malkawi --Part I. The struggling Arab city --Amman : disguised genealogy and recent urban restructuring and neoliberal threats / Rami Farouk Daher --From regional node to backwater and back to uncertainty : Beirut, 1943--2006 / Sofia T. Shwayri --Rabat : from capital to global metropolis / Jamila Bargach --Part II. The emerging Arab city --Riyadh : a city of'institutional' architecture / Mashary A. Al-Naim --Kuwait : learning from a globalized city / Yasser Mahgoub --Manama : the metamorphosis of a Gulf city / Mustapha Ben Hamouche --Rediscovering the island : Doha's urbanity from pearls to spectacle / Khaled Adham --Cities of sand and fog : Abu Dhabi's arrival on the global scene / Yasser Elsheshtawy.
Includes bibliographical references and index
9780415411561 (hbk.) : RM421.50 0415411564 (hbk.) 9780415665728 RM122.87
City planning--Arab countries
Cities and towns--Arab countries
The great divide : struggling and emerging cities in the Arab world / Yasser Elsheshtawy --The new Arab metropolis : a new research agenda / Fuad K. Malkawi --Part I. The struggling Arab city --Amman : disguised genealogy and recent urban restructuring and neoliberal threats / Rami Farouk Daher --From regional node to backwater and back to uncertainty : Beirut, 1943--2006 / Sofia T. Shwayri --Rabat : from capital to global metropolis / Jamila Bargach --Part II. The emerging Arab city --Riyadh : a city of'institutional' architecture / Mashary A. Al-Naim --Kuwait : learning from a globalized city / Yasser Mahgoub --Manama : the metamorphosis of a Gulf city / Mustapha Ben Hamouche --Rediscovering the island : Doha's urbanity from pearls to spectacle / Khaled Adham --Cities of sand and fog : Abu Dhabi's arrival on the global scene / Yasser Elsheshtawy.
Includes bibliographical references and index
9780415411561 (hbk.) : RM421.50 0415411564 (hbk.) 9780415665728 RM122.87
City planning--Arab countries
Cities and towns--Arab countries