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Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

Artikelnummer: 978-0-415-83221-2
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Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city's urban development.

With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai's urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. Uniquely, it looks beyond the glamour of Dubai's mega-projects, and provides an in-depth exploration of a select set of spaces which reveal the city's 'inner life'.

"Subtly engaging with wider literatures on globalisation, consumption, migration, geography, urban planning and architecture, the book makes a hugely welcome contribution to a subject field otherwise dominated by political and economic analyses and to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies." - Urban Studies

Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city's urban development.

With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai's urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. Uniquely, it looks beyond the glamour of Dubai's mega-projects, and provides an in-depth exploration of a select set of spaces which reveal the city's 'inner life'.

"Subtly engaging with wider literatures on globalisation, consumption, migration, geography, urban planning and architecture, the book makes a hugely welcome contribution to a subject field otherwise dominated by political and economic analyses and to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies." - Urban Studies
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VerlagTaylor and Francis
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Seitenangabe294 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
AbbildungenRaster,schwarz-weiss
MasseH24.6 cm x B17.4 cm 610 g
CoverlagRoutledge (Imprint/Brand)
ReihePlanning, History and Environment Series
AutorElsheshtawy, Yasser

Alle Bände der Reihe "Planning, History and Environment Series"

Über den Autor Yasser Elsheshtawy

Yasser Elsheshtawy is a professor of architecture and independent scholar specializing in urbanization, informal urbanism, and the history of Middle Eastern cities. He is a non-resident scholar at the Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor at Columbia GSAPP. Formerly at UAE University (1997-2017), he curated the UAE Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and has authored or edited eight books, including Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle (2010) and Arab Modernism(s): Cities, History and Culture (2026).

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