Routledge handbook on Middle East cities. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook on Middle East cities
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nasasra.
• Authors: Nasasra, Mansour
• Editors: Yacobi, Haim
• Contents: Introduction : cities in the Middle East : beyond "middle easternism" / Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nnasasra -- In the eyes of some Britons : Aleppo, a cosmpolitan city / Mohammad Sakhnini -- The making of Tehran : the incremental encroachment of modernity / M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat -- Dotting urban spaces : Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca / André Levy -- Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem : a comparative discussion / Chen Misgav and Gilly Hartal -- The home in the Middle Eastern city : a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa / Tovi Fenster -- Gaza's historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction : is the present an aberration? / Yasmeen El Khoudary -- Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space : the case of Haifa / Yara Hawari -- Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city : Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem and Istanbul / Mansour Nasasra -- Understanding the materiality of suspicion : affective politics in MENA cities / Mark Levine and Maria Frederika Malmström -- Borders, boundaries and frontiers : on Jerusalem's present geopolitics / Haim Yacobi -- "A demarcation in the hearts" : everyday urban frontiers in Beirut / Sara Fregonese -- Tourism and urbanism in Iran : top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian Region / Pamela Karimi -- The politics of building in post-revolution Tehran / Azadeh Meshayekhi -- Revisiting Sanaa's urban planning and development challenges / Wafa al-Daily -- Marrakesh : a fresh perspective : moving from a form-based planning to a value-based approach / Iqbal Khaiy -- Securitisation of urban electricity supply : a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon / Eric Verdeil -- The rise of a Saharan city : urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune / Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum -- Rethinking "building resilience" : conflict and the Middle East city / Bruce Stanley -- Erasing Palimpsest city : boom, bust and urbicide in Turkey / Kerem Öktem -- Hebron : challenging the "urbicide" / Marion Lecoquierre -- The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq : internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in Duhok / Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks -- Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? / Salam Arabi Katbi -- Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah / Kareem Rabie -- Political economy of tourism development in the Gulf : the cases of Muscat and Doha / Angeline Turner.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 410 pages)
• Subjects: 307.1/2160956; Cities and towns -- Middle East; Urbanization -- Middle East; Urban policy -- Middle East; City planning -- Middle East; Sociology, Urban -- Middle East; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; Cities and towns; City planning; Economic history; Social conditions; Sociology, Urban; Urban policy; Urbanization; Middle East -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Middle East -- Economic conditions -- 21st century; Middle East; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317231189; 9781317231172; 1317231171; 9781317231165; 1317231163; 9781315625164; 1315625164
• Related ISBNs: 131723118X; 9781138650749
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019).
• 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.