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Building the Inclusive City Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-32988-4

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This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place


Subject: Social Sciences / Urban Studies / Sociology / Disability Studies / Public Policy / Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights / Middle Eastern Culture / Urban Studies / Urban Affairs / Urban Planning / Urban Governance / Disability Studies / Middle East / Dubai / City States / Urbanization / Public Administration / Sociology / Development Studies / Public Policy / Gulf Studies