04722cam a22005417a 4500 15139658 OSt 20251211125433.0 080111r20112008enkab b 001 0 eng 2008001567 GBB0D6031 bnb 015695567 Uk 9780415665728 pbk 0415665728 pbk 9780203696798 (ebook) 15139658 (OCoLC)751146481 UKMGB eng UKMGB EYM YDXCP BBH OCLCQ OCLCO Z@L OCLCF DLC lccopycat aw----- HT147.5 .E86 2011 306.760956 E86 2011 22 307.12160956 23 The evolving Arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development / edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy. London : Routledge, 2011. xiv, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Planning, history and the environment series First published 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "This outstanding collection, written by sophisticated and engaged Arab architects/urbanists, is a stunning sequel to 'Planning Middle Eastern Cities' (2004) Like its predecessor, it does three things: effectively demolishes the monopoly 'orientalists' had over the topic; integrates grounded Arab scholarship with mainstream 'western' critical urban theory; and, by detailing the diverse ways Arab cities are responding to globalization, challenges oversimplified debates on 'The Global City'. Studies of Arab/Islamic cities used to be the province of 'outsiders' who not only prematurely generalized to a genre, but encapsulated it 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 three older cities (Amman, Beirut, and Rabat) and five newer oil cities (Riyadh, Kuwait City, Manama, Doha and Abu-Dhabi), focus, often critically, on their rapid transformations. Each case study traces its colonial and post-colonial history, the evolution of its distinctive social and physical structures, and its intersection with the region and the world. It pays particular attention to, inter alia, the effects of recent wars, migration patterns, petroleum prices, noting the increased role of 'rulers' in city planning/real estate investment both within and between Arab countries. Each traces the increased interactions between multinational firms and local developers as they strategize and compete to elevate themselves to global city status. Neoliberalism and State-sponsored advanced capitalism are all implicated in the painful task of balancing identity and post-modernity. A must read!" -- Janet Abu-Lughod, Professor Emerita, Northwestern University and The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, USA Winner of The International Planning History Society (IPHS) Book Prize. Cities and towns Middle East. City planning Middle East. Cities and towns. fast (OCoLC)fst00861748 City planning. fast (OCoLC)fst00862177 Middle East. fast (OCoLC)fst01241586 Elsheshtawy, Yasser. Planning, history, and the environment series. 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK-EN 0 8298 8298 0 0 ddc 0 0 CENTRAL TUWAIQ 2025-12-28 0 306.760956 E86 2011 1000000025616 2025-12-28 16:47:12 2025-12-28 BK-EN