LEADER 03045nam 22006374a 450 001 9910814157903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-41009-3 010 $a0-203-35560-1 010 $a1-134-41010-7 010 $a1-280-07853-7 010 $a0-203-60900-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203609002 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252655 035 $a(EBL)200238 035 $a(OCoLC)252935415 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306132 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306132 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10311710 035 $a(PQKB)10894829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200238 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200238 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10093645 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7853 035 $a(OCoLC)56565406 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252655 100 $a20040308d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPlanning Middle Eastern cities $ean urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world /$fedited by Yasser Elsheshtawy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aPlanning, history and environment series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-55309-1 311 $a0-415-30400-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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; Index 330 $aMiddle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of the six cities included here shows. They range from cities rich in tradition (Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad), to neglected cities (Algiers and Sana'a), to newly emerging 'oil-rich' Gulf cities (Dubai). The authors are all young Arab scholars and architects local to the cities they describe, providing an authentic voice with an understanding no outsider could achieve. These contributors move away from an exclusively 'Islamic' reading of A 410 0$aPlanning, history, and the environment series. 606 $aCity planning$zMiddle East 615 0$aCity planning 676 $a307.1/216/0956 701 $aElsheshtawy$b Yasser$01666153 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814157903321 996 $aPlanning Middle Eastern cities$94025256 997 $aUNINA