Urban Design in the Arab World
«’Most urban designers are familiar with the historical architecture of Islam and its current contribution to postmodernity, particularly in the United Arab Emirates. Less well known however is the singular contribution it has made to urban design. This text contributes a new dimension to our understanding of urban space and form and its links to globalisation, regionalism, culture, and religion. It brings together unique expertise to reveal the much neglected complexity of urbanism in the Arab world.’ Alexander Cuthbert, The University of New South Wales, Australia ’The Arab City, a post-Islamic city concept, is the prism through which this collection of essays examines both the practice of urban design and the various discursive frameworks shaping it today. Deftly deploying critical, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, the book manages to pose fundamental questions about the status of urbanism, design, and politics before and after the Arab Spring.’ Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA»
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 296
- ISBN
- 9781032098517
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 25 x 17 cm
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«’Most urban designers are familiar with the historical architecture of Islam and its current contribution to postmodernity, particularly in the United Arab Emirates. Less well known however is the singular contribution it has made to urban design. This text contributes a new dimension to our understanding of urban space and form and its links to globalisation, regionalism, culture, and religion. It brings together unique expertise to reveal the much neglected complexity of urbanism in the Arab world.’ Alexander Cuthbert, The University of New South Wales, Australia ’The Arab City, a post-Islamic city concept, is the prism through which this collection of essays examines both the practice of urban design and the various discursive frameworks shaping it today. Deftly deploying critical, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, the book manages to pose fundamental questions about the status of urbanism, design, and politics before and after the Arab Spring.’ Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA»