TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanna,Ahmed
ED  - Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
TI  - The superlative city: Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century 
SN  - 9780977122431 (pbk.) :
AV  - HT169.U5 S86 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KW  - Architecture
KW  - United Arab Emirates
KW  - Dubayy (Emirate)
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
KW  - Dubai
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -