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1 online resource (xvi, 410 pages) |
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Routledge Handbooks |
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Routledge handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction : cities in the Middle East : beyond "middle easternism" / Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nnasasra -- In the eyes of some Britons : Aleppo, a cosmpolitan city / Mohammad Sakhnini -- The making of Tehran : the incremental encroachment of modernity / M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat -- Dotting urban spaces : Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca / André Levy -- Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem : a comparative discussion / Chen Misgav and Gilly Hartal -- The home in the Middle Eastern city : a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa / Tovi Fenster -- Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction : is the present an aberration? / Yasmeen El Khoudary -- Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space : the case of Haifa / Yara Hawari -- Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city : Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem and Istanbul / Mansour Nasasra -- Understanding the materiality of suspicion : affective politics in MENA cities / Mark Levine and Maria Frederika Malmström -- Borders, boundaries and frontiers : on Jerusalem's present geopolitics / Haim Yacobi -- "A demarcation in the hearts" : everyday urban frontiers in Beirut / Sara Fregonese -- Tourism and urbanism in Iran : top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian Region / Pamela Karimi -- The politics of building in post-revolution Tehran / Azadeh Meshayekhi -- Revisiting Sanaa's urban planning and development challenges / Wafa al-Daily -- Marrakesh : a fresh perspective : moving from a form-based planning to a value-based approach / Iqbal Khaiy -- Securitisation of urban electricity supply : a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon / Eric Verdeil -- The rise of a Saharan city : urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune / Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum -- Rethinking "building resilience" : conflict and the Middle East city / Bruce Stanley -- Erasing Palimpsest city : boom, bust and urbicide in Turkey / Kerem Öktem -- Hebron : challenging the "urbicide" / Marion Lecoquierre -- The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq : internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in Duhok / Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks -- Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? / Salam Arabi Katbi -- Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah / Kareem Rabie -- Political economy of tourism development in the Gulf : the cases of Muscat and Doha / Angeline Turner |
| 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. Moving beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Haim Yacobi is a Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. In 1999 he formulated the idea of establishing "Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights" and co-founded this NGO that deals with human rights and planning in Israel\Palestine. His research interest in relation to urban space are social justice, urban health, migration, and colonial planning. His latest books are Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity (2011 with Erez Tzfadia) and Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (2016). Mansour Nasasra is a lecturer in Middle East politics and international relations at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was a research fellow at the Council for British Research in the Levant and has been a recipient of British Academy grants. Nasasra is the author of The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance (2017). He is also co-editor of The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives (2015) |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019) |
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Cities and towns -- Middle East
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Urbanization -- Middle East
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Urban policy -- Middle East
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City planning -- Middle East
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Sociology, Urban -- Middle East
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Cities and towns
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City planning
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Urban
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Urban policy
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Urbanization
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Middle East -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yacobi, Haim, editor.
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Nasasra, Mansour, author.
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| LC no. |
2019011457 |
| ISBN |
9781317231189 |
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131723118X |
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9781317231172 |
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1317231171 |
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9781317231165 |
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1317231163 |
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9781315625164 |
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1315625164 |
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