Kuwait Transformed : A History of Oil and Urban Life /

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As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted bui...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Al-Nakib, Farah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
City and town life > Kuwait > Kuwait > History.
Urbanization > Kuwait > Kuwait > History.
Kuwait City.
everyday life.
functional zoning.
modernist planning.
oil modernization.
port city.
public space.
public/private life.
suburbanization.
urbanization.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1 Pre-Oil Urbanism
  • 2 Port City Life
  • 3 A Cosmopolitan Community
  • 4 Oil-Era Modernization
  • 5 The Move to the Suburbs
  • 6 The Privatization of Urban Life
  • 7 The De-Urbanization of Society
  • 8 The Right to the City
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Key Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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