The Arab City

Author : Amale Andraos,Nora Akawi,Caitlin Blanchfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 1941332145

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The Arab City by Amale Andraos,Nora Akawi,Caitlin Blanchfield Pdf

Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernity, The Arab City: Architectural and Representation critically engages contemporary architectural and urban production in the Middle East. Taking the "Arab City" and "Islamic Architecture" as sites of investigation rather than given categories, this book reframes the region's buildings, cities, and landscapes and broadens its architectural and urban canons. Arab cities are multifaceted places and sites of layered historical imaginaries; defined by regional and territorial economies, they bridge scales of production and political engagement. The essays collected here investigate cultural representation, the evolution of historical cities, contemporary architectural practices, emerging urban conditions, and responsive urban imaginaries in the Arab World. With contributions from Ashraf Abdalla, Senan Abdelqader, Nadia Abu ElÂ-Haj, Su'ad Amiry, Amale Andraos, Mohammed al-Asad, George Arbid, Mohamed Elshahed, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Rania Ghosn, Saba Innab, Adrian Lahoud, Lila Abu Lughod, Ziad Jamaleddine, Ahmed Kanna, Bernard Khoury, Laura Kurgan, Ali Mangera, Reinhold Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Magda Mostafa, Nasser Rabbat, Hashim Sarkis, Felicity Scott, Hala Warde, Mark Wasiuta, Eyal Weizman, Mabel O. Wilson, and Gwendolyn Wright.

Author : Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134128204

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The Evolving Arab City by Yasser Elsheshtawy Pdf

Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation. This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of the book – Rabat, Amman, Beirut, Kuwait, Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh – provide a unique insight into today’s Middle Eastern city. Winner of The International Planning History Society (IPHS) Book Prize.

Author : Susan Slyomovics
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135281267

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The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History by Susan Slyomovics Pdf

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sources and theoretical approaches now being used in writing historical narratives framed within the city space. They shed light on recent studies by anthropologists regarding social praxis within the urban context, and analyze the urban experience of the medina and the casbah as they are represented in visual and material culture.

Author : Haim Yacobi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134065837

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The Jewish-Arab City by Haim Yacobi Pdf

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.

Author : Harvey Molotch,Davide Ponzini
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479855773

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The New Arab Urban by Harvey Molotch,Davide Ponzini Pdf

Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world’s tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the Sorbonne, as well as many American and European universities, all have handsome outposts and campuses in the region. Such initiatives bespeak strategies to diversify economies and pursue grand ambitions across the Earth. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha—where the dynamics of extreme urbanization are so strongly evident—the authors of The New Arab Urban trace what happens when money is plentiful, regulation weak, and labor conditions severe. Just how do authorities in such settings reconcile goals of oft-claimed civic betterment with hyper-segregation and radical inequality? How do they align cosmopolitan sensibilities with authoritarian rule? How do these elite custodians arrange tactical alliances to protect particular forms of social stratification and political control? What sense can be made of their massive investment for environmental breakthrough in the midst of world-class ecological mayhem? To address such questions, this book’s contributors place the new Arab urban in wider contexts of trade, technology, and design. Drawn from across disciplines and diverse home countries, they investigate how these cities import projects, plans and structures from the outside, but also how, increasingly, Gulf-originated initiatives disseminate to cities far afield. Brought together by noted scholars, sociologist Harvey Molotch and urban analyst Davide Ponzini, this timely volume adds to our understanding of the modern Arab metropolis—as well as of cities more generally. Gulf cities display development patterns that, however unanticipated in the standard paradigms of urban scholarship, now impact the world.

Author : K. Ziadeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230120075

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Neighborhood and Boulevard by K. Ziadeh Pdf

Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity.

Author : Stefano Bianca
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3728119725

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Urban Form in the Arab World by Stefano Bianca Pdf

Author : John Gulick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Tripoli (Lebanon)
ISBN : 067428447X

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Tripoli by John Gulick Pdf

Author : Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134128211

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The Evolving Arab City by Yasser Elsheshtawy Pdf

This new collection€reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.

Author : Robert Saliba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317003915

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Urban Design in the Arab World by Robert Saliba Pdf

The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious diversity, and recently the Arab uprisings, a bottom-up revolution shaking the foundations of pre-established, long-standing hierarchies. It is also a region that has witnessed a remarkable level of transformation and development due to the accelerated pace imposed by post-war reconstruction, environmental degradation, and the competition among cities for world visibility and tourism. Accordingly, the Arab World is a prime territory for questioning urban design, inviting as it does a multiplicity of opportunities for shaping, upgrading, and rebuilding urban form and civic space while subjecting global paradigms to regional and local realities. Providing a critical overview of the state of contemporary urban design in the Arab World, this book conceptualizes the field under four major perspectives: urban design as discourse, as discipline, as research, and as practice. It poses two questions. How can such a diversity of practice be positioned with regard to current international trends in urban design? Also, what constitutes the specificity of the Middle Eastern experience in light of the regional political and cultural settings? This book is about urban designers ’on the margins’: how they narrate their cities, how they engage with their discipline, and how they negotiate their distance from, and with respect to global disciplinary trends. As such, the term margins implies three complementary connotations: on the global level, it invites speculation on the way contemporary urban design is being impacted by the new conceptualizations of center-periphery originating from the post-colonial discourse; on the regional level, it is a speculation on the specificity of urban design thinking and practice within a particular geographical and cultural context (here, the Arab World); and finally, on the local level, it is an a

Author : Philip Khuri Hitti
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452909592

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Capital Cities of Arab Islam by Philip Khuri Hitti Pdf

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025801791

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Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period by André Raymond Pdf

Professor Raymond deals here with the evolution of the great Arab cities of the Ottoman period (1516-1800) - with questions of organisation, social life and the built space - looking in particular at Aleppo, Algiers, Constantine and, above all, at Cairo. These studies form part of a movement, in which the author's work has played a significant role, aiming to re-examine the traditional Orientalist view of 'Muslim cities'. Contrary to the negative perception one so often finds, of decadent and chaotic towns, it can be seen that they had a coherent internal structure and that, far from being in decline, they enjoyed renewed prosperity in the Ottoman era, benefiting from the strength of the empire and flourishing Mediterranean trade. This in turn was reflected in the important and original architectural activity of the period.

Author : Haim Yacobi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134065844

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The Jewish-Arab City by Haim Yacobi Pdf

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.

Author : Nizar F. Hermes,Gretchen Head
Publisher : EUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : 1474406521

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The City in Arabic Literature by Nizar F. Hermes,Gretchen Head Pdf

The theme and motif of the city has had an enduring presence in the Arabic-Islamic tradition, from the classical and post-classical literary corpus to modern and post-colonial Arabic poetry and prose. Cities such as Mecca, Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Marrakesh and Cordoba have served as virtual (battle)grounds for some of the Arab world's most complex intellectual, sociocultural, and political issues. The Arab city has been transformed from a mere physical structure and textual space into an (auto)biographical, novelistic, and poetic arena-often troubled and contested-for debating the encounter, competition and conflict between the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern, the meditative and the satiric, the individual and the communal, and the Self and Other(s).

Author : Mashary Al-Naim
Publisher : EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788867803897

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Political influences and paradigm shifts in the Contemporary Arab Cities by Mashary Al-Naim Pdf