Yasser Elsheshtawy

Temporary Cities

Resisting Transience in Arabia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who build and operate these gleaming urban centres remain a viable urban entity? In this wide-ranging book Yasser Elsheshtawy takes on tough, but necessary, questions aiming to examine the very nature of the Arab Gulf city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781032241302
• ISBN-10: 1032241306
• Artikelnr.: 62952293

Autorenporträt

Yasser Elsheshtawy is an independent scholar, researcher and writer. He is author of Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle and editor of Planning Middle Eastern Cities and The Evolving Arab City, published in the Planning, History and Environment series.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. Introduction:.Transience in Arabia Part I: Prelude:
Constructing a Landscape of Temporality 2. Forming an Urban Imaginary 3.
Scenes from Dubai 4. The Arab Gulf City in Fiction Part II: Urban
Interventions: Resistance and Defiance 5. Quotidian Space 6. Sheltering
Space 7. Cosmopolitan Space 8. Local Space 9. Transience and Gulf
Exceptionalism. References. Index