The New Arab Urban : : Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress / / Davide Ponzini, Harvey Molotch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter NYUP / FUP Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Akhavan, Mina,; Andraos, Amale,; Ballon, Hilary,; Boodrookas, Alex,; Elsheshtawy, Yasser,; Günel, Gökçe,; Hertog, Steffen,; Keshavarzian, Arang,; Lieto, Laura,; Molotch, Harvey,; Moser, Sarah,; Nastasi, Michele,; Ponzini, Davide,
• HerausgeberIn: Molotch, Harvey,; Ponzini, Davide,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 65 black and white illustrations

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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