Routledge handbook on Middle East cities / edited by Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nasasra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nasasra, Mansour, author.

Contributor:

Yacobi, Haim, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Middle East.

Cities and towns.

Urbanization--Middle East.

Urbanization.

Urban policy--Middle East.

Urban policy.

City planning--Middle East.

City planning.

Sociology, Urban--Middle East.

Sociology, Urban.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Middle East--Social conditions--21st century.

Middle East.

Middle East--Economic conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 410 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. Moving beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.

Contents:

Introduction : cities in the Middle East : beyond "middle easternism" / Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nnasasra

In the eyes of some Britons : Aleppo, a cosmpolitan city / Mohammad Sakhnini

The making of Tehran : the incremental encroachment of modernity / M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat

Dotting urban spaces : Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca / André Levy

Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem : a comparative discussion / Chen Misgav and Gilly Hartal

The home in the Middle Eastern city : a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa / Tovi Fenster

Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction : is the present an aberration? / Yasmeen El Khoudary

Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space : the case of Haifa / Yara Hawari

Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city : Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem and Istanbul / Mansour Nasasra

Understanding the materiality of suspicion : affective politics in MENA cities / Mark Levine and Maria Frederika Malmström

Borders, boundaries and frontiers : on Jerusalem's present geopolitics / Haim Yacobi

"A demarcation in the hearts" : everyday urban frontiers in Beirut / Sara Fregonese

Tourism and urbanism in Iran : top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian Region / Pamela Karimi

The politics of building in post-revolution Tehran / Azadeh Meshayekhi

Revisiting Sanaa's urban planning and development challenges / Wafa al-Daily

Marrakesh : a fresh perspective : moving from a form-based planning to a value-based approach / Iqbal Khaiy

Securitisation of urban electricity supply : a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon / Eric Verdeil

The rise of a Saharan city : urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune / Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum

Rethinking "building resilience" : conflict and the Middle East city / Bruce Stanley

Erasing Palimpsest city : boom, bust and urbicide in Turkey / Kerem Öktem

Hebron : challenging the "urbicide" / Marion Lecoquierre

The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq : internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in Duhok / Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks

Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? / Salam Arabi Katbi

Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah / Kareem Rabie

Political economy of tourism development in the Gulf : the cases of Muscat and Doha / Angeline Turner.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781317231189

131723118X

9781317231172

1317231171

9781317231165

1317231163

9781315625164

1315625164

OCLC:

1089841501

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