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" The new Arab urban : "
edited by Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini.
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BL
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1049859
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bc963
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English
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| Title & Author
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The new Arab urban : : Gulf cities of wealth, ambition, and distress /\ edited by Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini.
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New York :: New York University Press,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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xi, 339 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781479880010
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: 1479880019
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: 9781479897254
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: 1479897256
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : Learning from Gulf Cities / Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini -- Section I. The Gulf as Transnational. Giving the Transnational a History : Gulf Cities across Time and Space / Alex Bookrookas and Arang Keshavarzian -- Problematizing a Regional Context : Representation in Arab and Gulf Cities / Amale Andraos -- Mobilities of Urban Spectacle : Plans, Projects, and Investments in the Gulf and Beyond / Davide Ponzini -- Section II. Assembling Hybrid Cities. A Gulf of Images : Photography and the Circulation of Spectacular Architecture / Michele Nastasi -- Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City / Laura Lieto -- Planning from Within : NYU Abu Dhabi / Hilary Ballon -- Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export. Gateway : Revisiting Dubai as a Port City / Mina Akhavan -- Exporting the Spaceship : The Connected Isolation of Masdar City / Gökçe Günel -- "Two Days to Shape the Future" : A Saudi Arabian Node in the Transnational Circulation of Ideas about New Cities / Sarah Moser -- Section IV. Audacity, Work-Arounds, and Spatial Segmentation. Real Estate Speculation and Transnational Development in Dubai / Yasser Elsheshtawy -- Consuming Abu Dhabi / Harvey Molotch -- A Quest for Significance : Gulf Oil Monarchies' International Strategies and Their Urban Dimensions / Steffen Hertog -- Conclusion : From Gulf Cities Onward / Harvey Molotch and Davide Ponzini.
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Urbanization-- Persian Gulf Region.
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Economic history.
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Social conditions.
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Urbanization.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.
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71.14 urban society.
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Persian Gulf Region, Social conditions.
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Persian Gulf Region, Economic conditions.
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Middle East, Persian Gulf Region.
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| Dewey Classification
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307.7609165/35
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HT147.P35N47 2019
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Molotch, Harvey Luskin
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Ponzini, Davide,1979-
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| Parallel Title
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Gulf cities of wealth, ambition, and distress
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