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Dubai : behind an urban spectacle / Yasser Elsheshtawy.
Fine Arts Library DS247.D78 E57 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elsheshtawy, Yasser.
- Series:
- Planning, history, and the environment series
- Planning, history and environment series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development projects.
- History.
- Urbanization.
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--History.
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate).
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--Economic conditions.
- Urbanization--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate)--History.
- Economic development projects--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate)--History.
- City planning--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- City planning.
- United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- The emerging urbanity of Dubai
- Arab cities and globalization
- The other Dubai: a photo essay
- The illusive history of Dubai
- The transformation of Dubai or towards the age of megastructures
- Spectacular architecture and urbanism
- The spectacular and the everyday: Dubai's retail landscape
- Transient city: Dubai's forgotten urban spaces
- Global Dubai or Dubaization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [280]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415444613
- 0415444616
- 9780203869703
- 0203869702
- OCLC:
- 166382776
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