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Title The new Arab urban : Gulf cities of wealth, ambition, and distress / edited by Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini
Published New York : New York University Press, [2019]
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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
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
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Subject Urbanization -- Persian Gulf Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Economic history
Social conditions
Urbanization
SUBJECT Persian Gulf Region -- Social conditions
Persian Gulf Region -- Economic conditions
Subject Persian Gulf Region
Form Electronic book
Author Molotch, Harvey Luskin, editor.
Ponzini, Davide, 1979- editor.
ISBN 9781479898855
1479898856