The superlative city : Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century
Title By: Kanna, Ahmed [Edited by]
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BookSeries: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2013.Description: 167 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780977122431Subject(s): Architecture | Cities and towns | Civilization | UrbanizationDDC classification: 307.76095357 SU PE Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 307.76095357 SU PE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0032366 | ||
| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 307.76095357 SU PE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0053148 |
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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.
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.