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Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World

Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World

Paperback

Series: Planning, History and Environment

General ArchitectureArchitecture HistoryLandscape Architecture

ISBN10: 0415553091
ISBN13: 9780415553094
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Cairo, Baghdad, Algiers and Dubai cannot be easily lumped together as a single group. Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid, ranging from those rich in tradition, to 'forgotten' cities, to newly emerging Gulf cities.

The authors here, Arab scholars and architects local to the cities they describe, provide an authentic voice with an understanding no outsider could achieve. They explore issues of identity, hybridity, colonization and globalization in the context of the struggles and solutions offered by each city from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Their focus is on how the built environment has changed over time and under different influences.

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