Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Learning from Gulf Cities; Section I. The Gulf as Transnational; 1. Giving the Transnational a History: Gulf Cities across Time and Space; 2. Problematizing a Regional Context: Representation in Arab and Gulf Cities; 3. Mobilities of Urban Spectacle: Plans, Projects, and Investments in the Gulf and Beyond; Section II. Assembling Hybrid Cities; 4. A Gulf of Images: Photography and the Circulation of Spectacular Architecture; 5. Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City; 6. Planning from Within: NYU Abu Dhabi |
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Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export7. Gateway: Revisiting Dubai as a Port City; 8. Exporting the Spaceship: The Connected Isolation of Masdar City; 9. "Two Days to Shape the Future": A Saudi Arabian Node in the Transnational Circulation of Ideas about New Cities; Section IV. Audacity, Work-Arounds, and Spatial Segmentation; 10. Real Estate Speculation and Transnational Development in Dubai; 11. Consuming Abu Dhabi; 12. A Quest for Significance: Gulf Oil Monarchies' International Strategies and Their Urban Dimensions; Conclusion: From Gulf Cities Onward; Acknowledgments |
Summary |
This text is a way to learn from the Persian Gulf - to use its cities, cultures, and politics to broaden our understanding of how wealth and power operate in the world today |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Urbanization -- Persian Gulf Region
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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Urbanization
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SUBJECT |
Persian Gulf Region -- Social conditions
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Persian Gulf Region -- Economic conditions
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Subject |
Persian Gulf Region
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Molotch, Harvey Luskin, editor.
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Ponzini, Davide, 1979- editor.
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ISBN |
9781479898855 |
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1479898856 |
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