The evolving Arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development
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書誌事項
The evolving Arab city : tradition, modernity and urban development
（Planning, history and the environment series）
Routledge, c2011
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Frist published 2008"--T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"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.
目次
1. Introduction: The Great Divide: Struggling and Emerging Cities of the Arab World 2. Prologue: The New Arab Metropolis Part 1: The Struggling Arab City 3. Amman: Disguised Genealogy, Recent Urban Restructuring and Neo-Liberal Threats 4. From Regional Node to Backwater and Back to Uncertainty: The Refashioning of Beirut, 1943-2006 5. Rabat: From Capital to Global Metropolis Part 2: The Emerging Arab City 6. Riyadh: A City of 'Institutional' Architecture 7. Kuwait: Learning from a Globalized City 8. Manama: The Metamorphosis of a Gulf City 9. Rediscovering the Island: Doha's Urbanity from Pearls to Spectacle 10. Cities of Sand and Fog: Abu Dhabi's Arrival on the Global Scene
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