The New Arab Urban : Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress /

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Otros Autores: Boodrookas, Alex (Contribuidor), Andraos, Amale (Contribuidor), Keshavarzian, Arang (Contribuidor), Ponzini, Davide (Contribuidor, Editor ), Günel, Gökçe (Contribuidor), Molotch, Harvey (Contribuidor, Editor ), Ballon, Hilary (Contribuidor), Lieto, Laura (Contribuidor), Nastasi, Michele (Contribuidor), Akhavan, Mina (Contribuidor), Moser, Sarah (Contribuidor), Hertog, Steffen (Contribuidor), Elsheshtawy, Yasser (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019]
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: Learning from Gulf Cities
  • Section I. The Gulf as Transnational
  • 1. Giving the Transnational a History: Gulf Cities across Time and Space
  • 2. Problematizing a Regional Context: Representation in Arab and Gulf Cities
  • 3. Mobilities of Urban Spectacle: Plans, Projects, and Investments in the Gulf and Beyond
  • Section II. Assembling Hybrid Cities
  • 4. A Gulf of Images: Photography and the Circulation of Spectacular Architecture
  • 5. Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City
  • 6. Planning from Within: NYU Abu Dhabi
  • Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export
  • 7. Gateway: Revisiting Dubai as a Port City
  • 8. Exporting the Spaceship: The Connected Isolation of Masdar City
  • 9. "Two Days to Shape the Future": A Saudi Arabian Node in the Transnational Circulation of Ideas about New Cities
  • Section IV. Audacity, Work-Arounds, and Spatial Segmentation
  • 10. Real Estate Speculation and Transnational Development in Dubai
  • 11. Consuming Abu Dhabi
  • 12. A Quest for Significance: Gulf Oil Monarchies' International Strategies and Their Urban Dimensions
  • Conclusion: From Gulf Cities Onward
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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