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Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (427 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317231189
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Routledge Handbook on Middle East CitiesDDC classification:
  • 307.12160956
LOC classification:
  • HT147.N4 .R688 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction: cities in the Middle East: beyond "Middle Easternism -- 2 In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, a cosmopolitan city -- 3 The making of Tehran: the incremental encroachment of modernity -- 4 Dotting urban spaces: Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca -- 5 Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a comparative discussion -- 6 The home in the Middle Eastern city: a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa -- 7 Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and destruction: is the present an aberration? -- 8 Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space: the case of Haifa -- 9 Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city: Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem, and Istanbul -- 10 Understanding the materiality of suspicion: affective politics in MENA cities -- 11 Borders, boundaries, and frontiers: on Jerusalem's present geopolitics -- 12 "A Demarcation in the Hearts": everyday urban frontiers in Beirut -- 13 Tourism and urbanism in Iran: top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian region -- 14 The politics of building in post-Revolution Tehran -- 15 Revisiting Sana'a's urban planning and development challenges -- 16 Marrakesh: a fresh perspective - moving from form-based planning to a value-based approach -- 17 Securitisation of urban electricity supply: a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon -- 18 The rise of a Saharan city: urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune -- 19 Rethinking "building resilience": conflict and the Middle East city -- 20 Erasing palimpsest city: boom, bust, and urbicide in Turkey -- 21 Hebron: challenging the urbicide.
22 The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: internally displaced people, interethnic relations, and social cohesion in Duhok -- 23 Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? -- 24 Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah -- 25 Political economy of tourism development in the Gulf: the cases of Muscat and Doha -- Index.
Summary: Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction: cities in the Middle East: beyond "Middle Easternism -- 2 In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, a cosmopolitan city -- 3 The making of Tehran: the incremental encroachment of modernity -- 4 Dotting urban spaces: Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca -- 5 Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a comparative discussion -- 6 The home in the Middle Eastern city: a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa -- 7 Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and destruction: is the present an aberration? -- 8 Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space: the case of Haifa -- 9 Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city: Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem, and Istanbul -- 10 Understanding the materiality of suspicion: affective politics in MENA cities -- 11 Borders, boundaries, and frontiers: on Jerusalem's present geopolitics -- 12 "A Demarcation in the Hearts": everyday urban frontiers in Beirut -- 13 Tourism and urbanism in Iran: top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian region -- 14 The politics of building in post-Revolution Tehran -- 15 Revisiting Sana'a's urban planning and development challenges -- 16 Marrakesh: a fresh perspective - moving from form-based planning to a value-based approach -- 17 Securitisation of urban electricity supply: a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon -- 18 The rise of a Saharan city: urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune -- 19 Rethinking "building resilience": conflict and the Middle East city -- 20 Erasing palimpsest city: boom, bust, and urbicide in Turkey -- 21 Hebron: challenging the urbicide.

22 The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: internally displaced people, interethnic relations, and social cohesion in Duhok -- 23 Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? -- 24 Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah -- 25 Political economy of tourism development in the Gulf: the cases of Muscat and Doha -- Index.

Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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