Titre et auteur:

The Middle East city : ancient traditions confront a modern world / edited by Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf.

Publication:

New York : Paragon House, ©1987.

Description:

xx, 393 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Middle East Chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy.
"A PWPA book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. The Islamic City -- Islamic identity and the metropolis : continuity and conflict / Ervin Y. Galantay -- The Islamic city and the Western city : a comparative analysis / Cyrus Mechkat -- Part 2. The Middle Eastern city -- Population movement and urbanization in the Arab world / Osman M. Osman -- Ideological constants and urban living / Fuad I. Khuri -- Part 3. The modernization of an Islamic city : the case of Sanaʼa -- Old Sanaʼa as an existing model for the Islamic city / Ali Oshaish -- Sanaʼa Al-Qadeema : the challenges of modernization / Fritz Piepenberg -- Sanaʼa : a profile of a changing city / Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf -- Part 4. Jerusalem -- The repercussions of Israel's occupation of Jerusalem / Henry Cattan -- Islamic Jerusalem as archetype of a harmonious urban environment / Abdullah Schleifer -- Zion and the two Jerusalems / Yitzhak Khayutman -- Part V. Problems of over-urbanization : the case of Cairo -- A sociological profile / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- The big urban bias / Hoda M. Sobhi -- Integrated village development and the housing problem of urban Egypt / Abdel K. El-Ahwal -- Part VI. Reconstructing Beirut -- An historical perspective of the city / John Munro -- Reconstruction : theory and practive / Friedrich Ragette -- A pictorial essays of the reconstruction process / Hana Abu Khadra -- Part VII. Issues in Turkish urbanization -- Urbanization trends in Turkey / Sabahaddin Zaim -- Environmental problems of urbanization / Erdogan Alkin -- Urbanization and political behavior / Esat Cam -- Part VIII. The future Middle Eastern city -- Communication in the Middle East city of the 1990s / Joseph Ben-Dak -- The provision of essential services in the future city / Kenneth Mellanby.

ISBN:

0943852137 (pbk.)
9780943852133 (pbk.)
0943852323 (hard)
9780943852324 (hard)

Sujet:

Islamic cities and towns Middle East History Congresses.
Urbanization Middle East History Congresses.
Rural-urban migration Middle East History Congresses.
Villes islamiques Moyen-Orient Histoire Congrès.
Urbanisation Moyen-Orient Histoire Congrès.
Exode rural Moyen-Orient Histoire Congrès.
Islamic cities and towns
Rural-urban migration
Urbanization
Stadt
Aufsatzsammlung
Stedenbouw.
Urbanisatie.
Steden.
Islamic cities and towns Middle East
Middle East
Naher Osten

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Vedettes secondaires:

Saqqaf, Abdulaziz Y., 1951-1999.
Professors World Peace Academy. Middle East Chapter.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 74613
Cote: ID:92-B2218
Statut: Disponible