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The superlative city : Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century / edited by Ahmed Kanna.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; 2013.Description: 167 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780977122431 (pbk.) :
- 0977122433 (pbk.) :
- Architecture -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- 21st century
- Urbanization -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
- Cities and towns -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- Growth
- Architecture -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
- Cities and towns -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
- Dubai (United Arab Emirates) -- Civilization
- Architecture
- Cities and towns
- Cities and towns -- Growth
- Civilization
- Urbanization
- United Arab Emirates -- Dubai
- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
- 2000 - 2099
- HT169.U5 S86 2013
Contents:
Summary: The speed and aesthetic brashness with which Dubai has developed in the last few years have left both scholarly and journalistic observers at a loss to capture its identity and significance. Here, contributors offer a serious analysis of Dubai's architecture and urban planning, relating them to social and economic theories.
Introduction / Ahmed Kanna -- Planning, prototyping, and replication in Dubai / Stephen Ramos and Peter G. Rowe -- Peak urbanism, micro-planning, and other emergent realities in Dubai / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood -- Learning from Dubai: is it possible? / Boris Brorman Jensen -- Terrain marecageux: Dubai's lopsided landscape / Gareth Doherty -- Dubai manifesto: Dubai's relationship to water / Virginie Picon-Lefebvre -- The Dubai effect: archipelago / Neyran Turan -- Resituating the Dubai spectacle / Yasser Elshesshtawy -- Dubai, in particular: anomalous spaces and ignored histories in the "superlative city" / Ahmed Kanna -- "Everything you can imagine is real": labor, hype, and the specter of progress in Dubai / Maryam Monalisa Gharavi -- The future promise of architecture in Dubai / Kevin Mitchell.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HT 169 .U5 S86 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 2025-05-02 | 5106761 |
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| HT 169 .N4 H647 2008 Unbuilding cities : obduracy in urban socio-technical change / | HT 169 .U48 D46 2014 UAE Castles in the sand : a city planner in Abu Dhabi / | HT 169 .U482 A284 2019 Planning Abu Dhabi : an urban history / | HT 169 .U5 S86 2013 The superlative city : Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century / | HT 169.55 .M362 2010 Designing planned communities / | HT 170 .B85 2012 Masterplanning futures / | HT 241 .C358 2016 Can a city be sustainable? / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Ahmed Kanna -- Planning, prototyping, and replication in Dubai / Stephen Ramos and Peter G. Rowe -- Peak urbanism, micro-planning, and other emergent realities in Dubai / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood -- Learning from Dubai: is it possible? / Boris Brorman Jensen -- Terrain marecageux: Dubai's lopsided landscape / Gareth Doherty -- Dubai manifesto: Dubai's relationship to water / Virginie Picon-Lefebvre -- The Dubai effect: archipelago / Neyran Turan -- Resituating the Dubai spectacle / Yasser Elshesshtawy -- Dubai, in particular: anomalous spaces and ignored histories in the "superlative city" / Ahmed Kanna -- "Everything you can imagine is real": labor, hype, and the specter of progress in Dubai / Maryam Monalisa Gharavi -- The future promise of architecture in Dubai / Kevin Mitchell.
The speed and aesthetic brashness with which Dubai has developed in the last few years have left both scholarly and journalistic observers at a loss to capture its identity and significance. Here, contributors offer a serious analysis of Dubai's architecture and urban planning, relating them to social and economic theories.
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