TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elsheshtawy,Yasser
TI  - The evolving Arab city: tradition, modernity and urban development 
SN  - 9780415665728 (pbk.) :
AV  - HT147.5 .E86 2011 
PY  - 2011///, 2008
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - City planning
N1  - First published in 2008; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This collection written by Arab architects/urbanists is a sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities. Studies of Arab/Islamic cities used to be the province of 'outsiders' who not only prematurely generalized to a genre, but to one encapsulated in timelessness. In contrast, the case studies included in the earlier volume (Dubai, Sana'a, Baghdad, Algiers, Tunis, and Cairo), now supplemented in this volume by studies on three older cities (Amman, Beirut, and Rabat) and five newer oil cities (Riyadh, Kuwait City, Manama, Doha and Abu-Dhabi), focus, often critically, on the cities' rapid transformations." "Each case study traces the city's colonial and post-colonial history, the evolution of its distinctive social and physical structures, and its intersection with the region and the world."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -