Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities

ISBN-13: 9781138650749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 410 str.

Haim Yacobi; Mansour Nasasra

Opis

Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana’a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: cities in the Middle East: beyond "Middle Easternism" Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nasasra 2. In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, a cosmpolitan city Mohammad Sakhnini 3. The making of Tehran: the incremental encroachment of modernity M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat 4. Dotting urban spaces: Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca André Levy 5. Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a comparative discussion Chen Misgav And Gilly Hartal 6. The home in The Middle Eastern city: a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa Tovi Fenster 7.Gaza’s historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction: Is the present an aberration? Yasmeen El Khoudary 8. Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space: the case of Haifa Yara Hawari 9. Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city: Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem and Istanbul Mansour Nasasra 10. Understanding the materiality of suspicion: affective politics in MENA cities Mark Levine and Maria Frederika Malmström 11. Borders, boundaries and frontiers: on Jerusalem’s present geopolitics Haim Yacobi 12. "A Demarcation in the Hearts": everyday urban frontiers in Beirut Sara Fregonese 13. Tourism and urbanism in Iran: top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian region Pamela Karimi 14. The politics of building in post-Revolution Tehran Azadeh Meshayekhi 15. Revisiting Sana’a’s urban planning and development challenges Wafa Al-Daily 16. Marrakesh: a fresh perspective – moving from a form-based planning to a value-based approach Iqbal Khaiy 17. Securitisation of urban electricity supply: a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon Eric Verdeil 18. The rise of a Saharan city: urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum 19. Rethinking "building resilience": conflict and the Middle East city Bruce Stanley 20. Erasing palimpsest city: boom, bust and urbicide in Turkey Kerem Öktem 21. Hebron: challenging the urbicide Marion Lecoquierre 22. The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq; internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in Duhok Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks 23. Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? Salam Arabi Katbi 24. Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah Kareem Rabie 25. Political economy of tourism development in The Gulf: the cases of Muscat and Doha Angeline Turner