Arab modernism(s) : cities, history, and culture / Yasser Elsheshtawy.

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Elsheshtawy, Yasser, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title & Author:

Arab modernism(s) : cities, history, and culture / Yasser Elsheshtawy.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.
©2026

Description:

ix, 546 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.

Series:

Planning, history and environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the modernism fetish -- Gourna : an interesting failure -- Modernizing Cairo : urban transformations and the inexorable march towards the desert -- Algiers : 'rock the casbah' and post-colonial legacies -- Rabat, Casablanca and the politics of exclusion -- Amman : a tale of two cities -- Beirut : urban violence, heterotopias and terrain vague -- Riyadh : modernity, tradition and the quest for identity -- Kuwait : spatial marginalization and exclusion -- Doha : urban palimpsests and the erase of memory -- Parallel modernities : Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and 'never the twain shall meet' -- Coda : my architect, Hassan Elsheshtawy.

Summary:

"Arab Modernisms is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today Adhering to his late fathers belief that cities are nothing without people Yasser Elsheshtawy writes not just about the buildings but the lives lived in and around them His narrative weaves together personal anecdotes and works of fiction and film thus providing a textured backdrop to his central theme the evolution of modernism in Arab cities Following the introduction the next ten chapters each focuses on a different city or town moving from Hassan Fathys Gourna to Cairo Algiers Rabat and Casablanca Amman and Beirut and then to the Gulf cities of Riyadh Kuwait Doha and Abu Dhabi and Dubai The book closes with a Coda a tribute to the authors father Hassan Elsheshtawy"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032952680 (hardcover)
9781032952734 (paperback)
1032952733 (paperback)
1032952687 (hardcover)
(electronic book)
9781003584049

Subject:

Architecture, Modern.
Architecture and society Arab countries.
Cities and towns Arab countries.

Added entries:

Planning, history, and the environment series.

Arab modernisms

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325450
Call No.: 325450
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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