Planning Middle Eastern Cities : An urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world

Editor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher: Routledge, First published 2004
Size: 4.88 MB
Format: SFXed pdf
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Contents:

1 The Middle East City: Moving beyond the Narrative of Loss

2 The Merits of Cities’ Locations

Overview and Developments

3 The Spatial Development and Urban Transformation of Colonial and Postcolonial Algiers

4 Globalization and the Search for Modern Local Architecture: Learning from Baghdad

5 Sana’a: Transformation of the Old City and the Impacts of the Modern Era

Case Studies: Redrawing Boundaries

6 Lake Tunis, or the Concept of the Third Centre

7 Cairo’s Urban Déjà Vu: Globalization and Urban Fantasies

8 Redrawing Boundaries: Dubai, an Emerging Global City