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Social Housing in the Middle East : Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (339 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253039880
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Housing in the Middle EastDDC classification:
  • 363.5/5610956
LOC classification:
  • HD7358.2.A3 .S635 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform -- 2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing -- 3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt -- 4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey -- Part II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond -- 5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia -- 6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948-53 -- 7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity -- 8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait -- Part III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices -- 9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements -- 10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945-60 -- 11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in İzmir -- Index.
Summary: Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform -- 2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing -- 3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt -- 4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey -- Part II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond -- 5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia -- 6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948-53 -- 7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity -- 8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait -- Part III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices -- 9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements -- 10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945-60 -- 11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in İzmir -- Index.

Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.

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