04553cam a22005057a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007101500190008801600180010702000230012502000200014802000260016803500130019403500210020704000700022804200140029804300120031205000230032408200280034708200210037524501060039626000320050230000400053433600260057433700280060033800270062849000490065550000260070450400510073050508770078152019040165865000350356265000320359765000480362965000450367765100430372270000250376583000510379090600450384194200180388699900150390495201280391915139658OSt20251211125433.0080111r20112008enkab    b    001 0 eng    a  2008001567  aGBB0D60312bnb7 a0156955672Uk  a9780415665728qpbk  a0415665728qpbk  z9780203696798 (ebook)  a15139658  a(OCoLC)751146481  aUKMGBbengcUKMGBdEYMdYDXCPdBBHdOCLCQdOCLCOdZ@LdOCLCFdDLC  alccopycat  aaw-----00aHT147.5b.E86 201104a306.760956 E86 201122204a307.1216095622304aThe evolving Arab city :btradition, modernity and urban development /cedited by Yasser Elsheshtawy.  aLondon :bRoutledge,c2011.  axiv, 314 p. :bill., maps ;c25 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier1 aPlanning, history and the environment series  aFirst published 2008.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe 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.  a"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. 0aCities and townszMiddle East. 0aCity planningzMiddle East. 7aCities and towns.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00861748 7aCity planning.2fast0(OCoLC)fst00862177 7aMiddle East.2fast0(OCoLC)fst012415861 aElsheshtawy, Yasser. 0aPlanning, history, and the environment series.  a7bcbcccopycatd2eepcnf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBK-ENn0  c8298d8298  00102ddc4070aCENTRALbTUWAIQd2025-12-28l0o306.760956 E86 2011p1000000025616r2025-12-28 16:47:12w2025-12-28yBK-EN