Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities

Herausgeber: Yacobi, Haim; Nasasra, Mansour

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9781138650749
• ISBN-10: 1138650749
• Artikelnr.: 57044366

Autorenporträt

Haim Yacobi is a Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. In 1999 he formulated the idea of establishing "Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights" and co-founded this NGO that deals with human rights and planning in Israel\Palestine. His research interest in relation to urban space are social justice, urban health, migration, and colonial planning. His latest books are Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity (2011 with Erez Tzfadia) and Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (2016). Mansour Nasasra is a lecturer in Middle East politics and international relations at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was a research fellow at the Council for British Research in the Levant and has been a recipient of British Academy grants. Nasasra is the author of The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance (2017). He is also co-editor of The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: cities in the Middle East: beyond "Middle Easternism"
Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nasasra 2. In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, a
cosmpolitan city Mohammad Sakhnini 3. The making of Tehran: the incremental
encroachment of modernity M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat 4. Dotting
urban spaces: Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca André Levy 5.
Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a comparative discussion
Chen Misgav And Gilly Hartal 6. The home in The Middle Eastern city: a
contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa Tovi Fenster
7.Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction: Is the present an
aberration? Yasmeen El Khoudary 8. Erasing memories of Palestine in
settler-colonial urban space: the case of Haifa Yara Hawari 9. Beersheba
and the dynamics of a Palestinian city: Bedouin networks with Gaza,
Jerusalem and Istanbul Mansour Nasasra 10. Understanding the materiality of
suspicion: affective politics in MENA cities Mark Levine and Maria
Frederika Malmström 11. Borders, boundaries and frontiers: on Jerusalem's
present geopolitics Haim Yacobi 12. "A Demarcation in the Hearts": everyday
urban frontiers in Beirut Sara Fregonese 13. Tourism and urbanism in Iran:
top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian region Pamela Karimi 14.
The politics of building in post-Revolution Tehran Azadeh Meshayekhi 15.
Revisiting Sana'a's urban planning and development challenges Wafa Al-Daily
16. Marrakesh: a fresh perspective - moving from a form-based planning to a
value-based approach Iqbal Khaiy 17. Securitisation of urban electricity
supply: a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon
Eric Verdeil 18. The rise of a Saharan city: urban development, tribal
settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum
19. Rethinking "building resilience": conflict and the Middle East city
Bruce Stanley 20. Erasing palimpsest city: boom, bust and urbicide in
Turkey Kerem Öktem 21. Hebron: challenging the urbicide Marion Lecoquierre
22. The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq;
internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in
Duhok Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks 23. Can integration offer Iraqi refugees
in Damascus a durable solution? Salam Arabi Katbi 24. Growth, aspiration,
and consolidation in Ramallah Kareem Rabie 25. Political economy of tourism
development in The Gulf: the cases of Muscat and Doha Angeline Turner