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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; 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 |
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Section III. Urban Test Beds for Export7. 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 |
| Summary |
This text is a way to learn from the Persian Gulf - to use its cities, cultures, and politics to broaden our understanding of how wealth and power operate in the world today. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Persian Gulf Region.
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Urbanization. |
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Persian Gulf Region. |
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Persian Gulf Region -- Social conditions.
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Persian Gulf Region -- Economic conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Economic conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. |
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Economic history. |
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Persian Gulf Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Molotch, Harvey Luskin, editor.
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Ponzini, Davide, 1979- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New Arab urban. New York : New York University Press, [2019] 9781479880010 (DLC) 2018021510 (OCoLC)1035302543 |
| ISBN |
9781479898855 (electronic book) |
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1479898856 (electronic book) |
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9781479880010 |
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1479880019 |
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9781479897254 |
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1479897256 |
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