Social housing in the Middle East : architecture, urban development, and transnational modernity / edited by Kıvanç Kılınç Mohammad Gharipour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gharipour, Mohammad, author.

Contributor:

Kılınç, Kıvanç, editor.

Gharipour, Mohammad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Part I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform

2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing

3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt

4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey

Part II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond

5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia

6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948-53

7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity

8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait

Part III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices

9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements

10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945-60

11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in İzmir

Index.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (JSTOR, viewed September 26, 2022).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780253039866

025303986X

9780253039873

0253039878