Format:
XIV, 314 S.
,
zahlr. Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. paperback ed.
ISBN:
9780415665728
Series Statement:
Planning, history and the environment series
Content:
"This collection written by Arab architects/urbanists is a sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities. Studies of Arab/Islamic cities used to be the province of 'outsiders' who not only prematurely generalized to a genre, but to one encapsulated in timelessness. In contrast, the case studies included in the earlier volume (Dubai, Sana'a, Baghdad, Algiers, Tunis, and Cairo), now supplemented in this volume by studies on three older cities (Amman, Beirut, and Rabat) and five newer oil cities (Riyadh, Kuwait City, Manama, Doha and Abu-Dhabi), focus, often critically, on the cities' rapid transformations." "Each case study traces the city's colonial and post-colonial history, the evolution of its distinctive social and physical structures, and its intersection with the region and the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-203-69679-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
Geography
,
Art History
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Naher Osten
;
Stadtplanung
;
Naher Osten
;
Stadtplanung
;
Stadtentwicklung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
