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1. Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

   By Yasser Elsheshtawy

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   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...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Evolving Arab City

   Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

   Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   "This outstanding collection, written by sophisticated and engaged Arab architects/urbanists, is a stunning sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities (2004) Like its predecessor, it does three things: effectively demolishes the monopoly ‘orientalists’ had over the topic; integrates grounded Arab...

   Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Planning Middle Eastern Cities

   An Urban Kaleidoscope

   Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Cairo, Baghdad, Algiers and Dubai cannot be easily lumped together as a single group. Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid, ranging from those rich in tradition, to 'forgotten’ cities, to newly emerging Gulf cities.The authors here, Arab scholars and architects local to the...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge