| Description |
343 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Princeton studies on the Near East
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Princeton studies on the Near East.
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| Note |
Based on papers presented at a conference entitled Urban planning and urban prospects in the Near East and North Africa held at Princeton University in April 1970. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Introduction / L. Carl Brown -- Traditional Muslim cities : structure and change / Ira P. Lapidus -- The traditional city of Herat, Afghanistan / Paul English -- Cairo : Perspective and prospectus / Janet Abu-Lughod -- Urbanization and urbanism in Beirut : some preliminary results / Samir Khalaf and Per Kongstad -- The socio-economic evolution of the inhabitants of a desert city : the case of Omdurman / Karol Krotki -- Kuwait : a case study / Saba George Shiber -- Evolution of concepts of housing, urbanism, and country planning in a developing country : Morocco, 1900-1972 / Jean Dethier -- Evolution of spatial organization in the Ottoman empire and Turkish republic / Ilhan Tekeli -- The care of historic monuments and sites in Turkey / Cevat Erder -- Muslim cities : old and new / Richard Ettinghausen -- Constancy, transposition and change in the Arab city / Hassan Fathy. |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Middle East.
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Cities and towns. |
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Middle East. |
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Steden. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Brown, L. Carl (Leon Carl), 1928-
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| ISBN |
0878500065 |
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9780878500062 |
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