The New Arab Urban : Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress

Cover -- THE NEW ARAB URBAN -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Learning from Gulf Cities -- Section I. The Gulf as Transnational -- 1. Giving the Transnational a History: Gulf Cities across Time and Space -- 2. Problematizing a Regional Context: Repre...
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Cover -- THE NEW ARAB URBAN -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Learning from Gulf Cities -- Section I. The Gulf as Transnational -- 1. Giving the Transnational a History: Gulf Cities across Time and Space -- 2. Problematizing a Regional Context: Representation in Arab and Gulf Cities -- 3. Mobilities of Urban Spectacle: Plans, Projects, and Investments in the Gulf and Beyond -- Section II. Assembling Hybrid Cities -- 4. A Gulf of Images: Photography and the Circulation of Spectacular Architecture -- 5. Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City -- 6. Planning from Within: NYU Abu Dhabi -- Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export -- 7. Gateway: Revisiting Dubai as a Port City -- 8. Exporting the Spaceship: The Connected Isolation of Masdar City -- 9. "Two Days to Shape the Future": A Saudi Arabian Node in the Transnational Circulation of Ideas about New Cities -- Section IV. Audacity, Work-Arounds, and Spatial Segmentation -- 10. Real Estate Speculation and Transnational Development in Dubai -- 11. Consuming Abu Dhabi -- 12. A Quest for Significance: Gulf Oil Monarchies' International Strategies and Their Urban Dimensions -- Conclusion: From Gulf Cities Onward -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index. Ausführliche Beschreibung