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Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life by Al-Nakib, Farah
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- 9780804796392
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- 9780804796392
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- Brand
- Stanford University Press
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Subject Area
- Urban Planning
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Kuwait Transformed: a History of Oil and Urban Life
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- History
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and wide highways. In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the twenty-first century, through the bridge of oil discovery. She traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, and social behaviors and relations in Kuwait. The history that emerges reveals how decades of urban planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded an open, tolerant society and given rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti social relations today. The book makes a call for a restoration of the city that modern planning eliminated. But this is not simply a case of nostalgia for a lost landscape, lifestyle, or community. It is a claim for a right to the city -the right of all inhabitants to shape and use the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires.
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Stanford University Press
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9780804796392
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Urban Planning
Publication Name
Kuwait Transformed: a History of Oil and Urban Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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United States
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