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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Al-Nakib, Farah, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Temas:
City and town life > Kuwait > Kuwait > History.
Urbanization > Kuwait > Kuwait > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Urban.
City and town life
Economic history
Social conditions
Urbanization
Erdölexport
Modernisierung
Sozialer Wandel
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Urbanität
Verstädterung
Kuwait (Kuwait) > Economic conditions.
Kuwait (Kuwait) > Social conditions.
Kuwait (Kuwait) > History.
Kuwait > Kuwait
Kuwait
Kuwait > Stadt
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pre-oil urbanism
  • Port city life
  • A cosmopolitan community
  • Oil-era modernization
  • The move to the suburbs
  • The privatization of urban life
  • The de-urbanization of society
  • The right to the city.

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