Yasser Elsheshtawy

Temporary Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Resisting Transience in Arabia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429855917
• Artikelnr.: 56139653

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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