| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780977122431 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
307.76095357 SU PE |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The superlative city : |
| Subtitle |
Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Ahmed Kanna |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Cambridge, Mass. : |
| Publisher |
Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, |
| Date |
2013. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
167 p. : |
| Other Details |
col. ill., col. maps ; |
| Size |
26 cm. |
| SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Aga Khan program book |
| CONTENTS |
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ahmed Kanna -- Planning, prototyping, and replication in Dubai / Stephen Ramos and Peter G. Rowe -- Peak urbanism, micro-planning, and other emergent realities in Dubai / Amale Andraos and Dan Wood -- Learning from Dubai: is it possible? / Boris Brorman Jensen -- Terrain marecageux: Dubai's lopsided landscape / Gareth Doherty -- Dubai manifesto: Dubai's relationship to water / Virginie Picon-Lefebvre -- The Dubai effect: archipelago / Neyran Turan -- Resituating the Dubai spectacle / Yasser Elshesshtawy -- Dubai, in particular: anomalous spaces and ignored histories in the "superlative city" / Ahmed Kanna -- "Everything you can imagine is real": labor, hype, and the specter of progress in Dubai / Maryam Monalisa Gharavi -- The future promise of architecture in Dubai / Kevin Mitchell. |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
The speed and aesthetic brashness with which Dubai has developed in the last few years have left both scholarly and journalistic observers at a loss to capture its identity and significance. Here, contributors offer a serious analysis of Dubai's architecture and urban planning, relating them to social and economic theories. |
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| Topical Heading |
Architecture |
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Cities and towns |
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Civilization |
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| Topical Heading |
Urbanization |
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| Name |
Kanna, Ahmed, |
| Role |
Edited by |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
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| Public note |
Location Map |
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