Urban Design in the Arab World: Reconceptualizing BoundariesDr Robert Saliba Providing a critical overview of the state of contemporary urban design in the Arab World, this book conceptualizes the field under four major perspectives: urban design as discourse, as discipline, as research, and as practice. It poses the questions: how can such a diversity of practice be positioned with regard to current international trends in urban design? And what constitutes the specificity of the Middle Eastern experience in light of the regional political and cultural settings? This book is also about urban designers ‘on the margins’: how they narrate their cities, how they engage with their discipline, and how they negotiate their distance from, and with respect to global disciplinary trends. |
Contents
Global Paradigms and Regional Implications | 1 |
Tables | 5 |
Reflections on an Urban Concept | 17 |
reconcePtualIzIng BounDarIes Between | 27 |
Community Activism in PostWar Reconstruction | 39 |
Learning from Beiruts Central Area Renewal | 51 |
Ecological Landscape Design and City Regions in the Mashreq | 65 |
barely perceptible | 69 |
New Cities Reflecting on the Dialectics between | 167 |
From Makkah to Karbala Reconciling Pilgrimage | 177 |
Baghdads Suspended Modernities versus a Fragmented Reality | 199 |
Tahrir Square From Appropriation to Design | 213 |
5 | 232 |
Future Directions for Urban Design | 243 |
Expanses of roads and parking in Istanbul Dubai Aleppo and Beirut | 246 |
Boxes | 255 |
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