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New waterfront cities in contemporary Tunisia

New waterfront cities in contemporary Tunisia

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General Science

ISBN10: 6209411088
ISBN13: 9786209411083
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is a follow-up to our recent essay, New waterfront cities in contemporary Tunisia: portrait, classification, and genealogy. It delves deeper into the phenomenon of producing and developing these urban artifacts, revealing their inner workings.The book is divided into four chapters. The first chapter discusses coastalization, which is a by-product of this phenomenon stemming from three interdependent factors: natural, historical, and political. The second chapter draws a schematic portrait of these new cities, emphasizing their three main characteristics: extroversion, modernism, and utopianism. The third chapter highlights the discrepancies between the media and regulatory discourses involved in crafting these artifacts-which promote an illusory horizontalism by labeling them as urban projects-and the actual design practices-which derive from a vertical logic that disregards the spatial and social nuances of their contexts. The fourth chapter explores the intricacies of the two tools that implement this transcendental logic: the grid and the enclave. Together, they form a hybrid apparatus. It also investigates how designers use these tools and their intended purposes.

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