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Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Publication year: 2022

ISBN: 9780367741921

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Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing on the 20th century as a starting point, the book explores the display of transnational architectural practices resulting in different notions of locality, cosmopolitanism, and modernity. Contextually, with an eye on the present, the book reflects on the initiatives that recently re-engaged with the once ville moderne which, meanwhile, lost its pivotal function and meaning. A city within a bigger city, the urban fabric produced during the modernization era has the potential to narrate the social growth, East–West dynamics, and citizens’ memories of the recent past.


Subject: Architecture, Architecture and society, Middle East Culture, Middle East Geography, Middle East History, Architectural History, Urban Development, Architectural Design, Architectural Drawing, Architectural Presentation, Urban Cultures, Urban Politics, Cities and Infrastructure (Urban Studies), Built Environment, Urban Studies