The superlative city : Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century / edited by Ahmed Kanna.
Contributor(s): Kanna, Ahmed | Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; 2013Description: 167 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780977122431 (pbk.) :; 0977122433 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Architecture -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- 21st century | Urbanization -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) | Cities and towns -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- Growth | Architecture -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) | Cities and towns -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) | Dubai (United Arab Emirates) -- Civilization | Architecture | Cities and towns | Cities and towns -- Growth | Civilization | Urbanization | United Arab Emirates -- Dubai | United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) | 2000 - 2099Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HT 169 .U5 S86 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5106761 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Ahmed Kanna -- Planning, prototyping, and replication in Dubai / Stephen Ramos and Peter G. Rowe -- Peak urbanism, micro-planning, and other emergent realities in Dubai / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood -- Learning from Dubai: is it possible? / Boris Brorman Jensen -- Terrain marecageux: Dubai's lopsided landscape / Gareth Doherty -- Dubai manifesto: Dubai's relationship to water / Virginie Picon-Lefebvre -- The Dubai effect: archipelago / Neyran Turan -- Resituating the Dubai spectacle / Yasser Elshesshtawy -- Dubai, in particular: anomalous spaces and ignored histories in the "superlative city" / Ahmed Kanna -- "Everything you can imagine is real": labor, hype, and the specter of progress in Dubai / Maryam Monalisa Gharavi -- The future promise of architecture in Dubai / Kevin Mitchell.
The speed and aesthetic brashness with which Dubai has developed in the last few years have left both scholarly and journalistic observers at a loss to capture its identity and significance. Here, contributors offer a serious analysis of Dubai's architecture and urban planning, relating them to social and economic theories.
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