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The new Arab urban : Gulf cities of wealth, ambition, and distress / edited by Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini.
LIBRA HT147.P35 N47 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--Persian Gulf Region.
- Urbanization.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Persian Gulf Region--Social conditions.
- Persian Gulf Region.
- Persian Gulf Region--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Gulf cities of wealth, ambition, and distress
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction : Learning from Gulf Cities / Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini
- Section I. The Gulf as Transnational. Giving the Transnational a History : Gulf Cities across Time and Space / Alex Bookrookas and Arang Keshavarzian
- Problematizing a Regional Context : Representation in Arab and Gulf Cities / Amale Andraos
- Mobilities of Urban Spectacle : Plans, Projects, and Investments in the Gulf and Beyond / Davide Ponzini
- Section II. Assembling Hybrid Cities. A Gulf of Images : Photography and the Circulation of Spectacular Architecture / Michele Nastasi
- Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City / Laura Lieto
- Planning from Within : NYU Abu Dhabi / Hilary Ballon
- Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export. Gateway : Revisiting Dubai as a Port City / Mina Akhavan
- Exporting the Spaceship : The Connected Isolation of Masdar City / Gökçe Günel
- "Two Days to Shape the Future" : A Saudi Arabian Node in the Transnational Circulation of Ideas about New Cities / Sarah Moser
- Section IV. Audacity, Work-Arounds, and Spatial Segmentation. Real Estate Speculation and Transnational Development in Dubai / Yasser Elsheshtawy
- Consuming Abu Dhabi / Harvey Molotch
- A Quest for Significance : Gulf Oil Monarchies' International Strategies and Their Urban Dimensions / Steffen Hertog
- Conclusion : From Gulf Cities Onward / Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479880010
- 1479880019
- 9781479897254
- 1479897256
- OCLC:
- 1035302543
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