Temporary cities : resisting transience in Arabia /: resisting transience in Arabia. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yasser Elsheshtawy.
• Authors: Elsheshtawy, Yasser
• Contents: Introduction : Transience in Arabia -- Prelude : Constructing a Landscape of Transience -- Forming an Urban Imaginary : A Photographic Essay -- Scenes from Dubai : Capturing Uncanny and Fleeting Experiences -- The Arab Gulf City in Fiction : The Unbearable Lightness of Transience -- Urban Interventions : Resistance and Defiance -- Quotidian Space : Everyday Interactions in Hor Al Anz Street -- Sheltering Space : Little Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi -- Cosmopolitan Space : Encountering Diversity in Nasser Square -- Local Space : the Emirati National House -- Transience and Gulf Exceptionalism.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages)
• Subjects: 307.760953; Cities and towns -- Persian Gulf Region; Sociology, Urban -- Persian Gulf Region; HISTORY / World; ARCHITECTURE / Domestic; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning; Cities and towns; Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Social conditions; Sociology, Urban; Persian Gulf Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Persian Gulf Region -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Middle East -- Persian Gulf Region; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429457838; 0429457839; 9780429855917; 0429855915; 9780429855900; 0429855907; 9780429855924; 0429855923
• Related ISBNs: 9781138313071; 1138313076
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.