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Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai

Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai

Reisz, Todd

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and

Arabian PeninsulaGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 150360988X
ISBN13: 9781503609884
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 27 2020
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous--this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival.

In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubai's ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubai's strategy for capturing the world's attention--and then its investments.

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