03045nam 22006374a 450 991081415790332120200520144314.01-134-41009-30-203-35560-11-134-41010-71-280-07853-70-203-60900-X10.4324/9780203609002 (CKB)1000000000252655(EBL)200238(OCoLC)252935415(SSID)ssj0000306132(PQKBManifestationID)11228739(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306132(PQKBWorkID)10311710(PQKB)10894829(MiAaPQ)EBC200238(Au-PeEL)EBL200238(CaPaEBR)ebr10093645(CaONFJC)MIL7853(OCoLC)56565406(EXLCZ)99100000000025265520040308d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlanning Middle Eastern cities an urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world /edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20041 online resource (225 p.)Planning, history and environment seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-55309-1 0-415-30400-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Illustration Credits and Sources; The Contributors; The Middle East City: Moving beyond the Narrative of Loss; The Merits of Cities' Locations; The Spatial Development and Urban Transformation of Colonial and Postcolonial Algiers; Globalization and the Search for Modern Local Architecture: Learning from Baghdad; Sana'a: Transformation of the Old City and the Impacts of the Modern Era; Lake Tunis, or the Concept of the Third Centre; Cairo's Urban Dej Vu: Globalization and Urban Fantasies; Redrawing Boundaries: Dubai, an Emerging Global City; IndexMiddle 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 APlanning, history, and the environment series.City planningMiddle EastCity planning307.1/216/0956Elsheshtawy Yasser1666153MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814157903321Planning Middle Eastern cities4025256UNINA