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New Islamic urbanism : the architecture of public and private space in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia /
Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed a rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and an increasing popularity of Western lifestyle, a distinct style in architecture and urban planning emerged. Characterised by an emph...
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London :
UCL Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. A Brief History of Jiddah in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 2. Public and Private Space in Jeddah in the first half of the Twentieth Century; 3. The Transformation of Urban Space in the Early Oil Era, 1950s and 1960s; 4. Architecture and Religious Reform: Architectural Discource from the 1970s to the 1990s; 5. Residential Architecture, from the 1970s to the Early Twenty-First Century; 6. Navigating Urban Space: Jeddah, Early Twenty-First Century; 7. Conclusion; References; Index