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The evolving Arab City: tradition, modernity & urban development / Yasser Elshesht.

Contributor(s): Elsheshtawy, Yasser.
Series: Planning, history, and the environment series: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xiv, 314 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0415411564 (hbk.); 9780415411561 (hbk.).Subject(s): City planning -- Arab countries | Cities and towns -- Arab countriesDDC classification: 307.121609174927
Contents:
The great divide: struggling and emerging cities in the Arab world -- The new arab metropolis: a new research agenda -- Amman: disguised genealogy and recent urban restructuring and neoliberal threats -- From regional node to backwater and back to uncertainty: Beirut, 1943-2006 -- Rabat: from capital to global metropolis -- Riyadh: a city of "institutional" architecture -- Kuwait: learning from a globalized city -- Manama: the metamorphosis of an Arab Gulf city -- Rediscovering the island: Doha's urbanity from pearls to spectacle -- Cities of sand and fog: Abu Dhabi's global ambitions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The great divide: struggling and emerging cities in the Arab world -- The new arab metropolis: a new research agenda -- Amman: disguised genealogy and recent urban restructuring and neoliberal threats -- From regional node to backwater and back to uncertainty: Beirut, 1943-2006 -- Rabat: from capital to global metropolis -- Riyadh: a city of "institutional" architecture -- Kuwait: learning from a globalized city -- Manama: the metamorphosis of an Arab Gulf city -- Rediscovering the island: Doha's urbanity from pearls to spectacle -- Cities of sand and fog: Abu Dhabi's global ambitions.