Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia

ISBN-13: 9781138313071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str.

Yasser Elsheshtawy

Opis

Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who build and operate these gleaming urban centres remain a viable urban entity? In this wide-ranging book Yasser Elsheshtawy takes on tough, but necessary, questions aiming to examine the very nature of the Arab Gulf city.

Spis treści

Prologue 1. Introduction:.Transience in Arabia Part I: Prelude: Constructing a Landscape of Temporality 2. Forming an Urban Imaginary 3. Scenes from Dubai 4. The Arab Gulf City in Fiction Part II: Urban Interventions: Resistance and Defiance 5. Quotidian Space 6. Sheltering Space 7. Cosmopolitan Space 8. Local Space 9. Transience and Gulf Exceptionalism. References. Index

O autorze

Yasser Elsheshtawy is an independent scholar, researcher and writer. He is author of Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle and editor of Planning Middle Eastern Cities and The Evolving Arab City, published in the Planning, History and Environment series.