TY - BOOK
T1 - Dubai
T2 - Behind an urban spectacle
AU - Elsheshtawy, Yasser
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2010 Yasser Elsheshtawy. All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/7/21
Y1 - 2009/7/21
N2 - Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city's urban development. With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai's urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. Uniquely, it looks beyond the glamour of Dubai's mega-projects, and provides an in-depth exploration of a select set of spaces which reveal the city's 'inner life'.
AB - Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city's urban development. With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai's urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. Uniquely, it looks beyond the glamour of Dubai's mega-projects, and provides an in-depth exploration of a select set of spaces which reveal the city's 'inner life'.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780203869703
DO - 10.4324/9780203869703
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84917203419
SN - 0203869702
SN - 9780203869703
BT - Dubai
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
ER -