Title & Author:

The superlative city : Dubai and the urban condition in the early twenty-first century / edited by Ahmed Kanna.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2013.

Description:

167 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Aga Khan Program book series.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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:

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.

ISBN:

9780977122431 (pbk.)
0977122433 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate) 21st century.
Urbanization United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate)
Cities and towns United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate) Growth.
Architecture United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate)
Cities and towns United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate)
Architecture, Modern 21st century United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate)
Urbanisation Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat)
Villes Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat) Croissance.
Villes Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat)
Architecture Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat) 21e siècle.
Architecture Émirats arabes unis Dubayy (Émirat)
Architecture
Cities and towns
Cities and towns Growth
Civilization
Urbanization
Architecture United Arab Emirates Dubai
Urbanization United Arab Emirates Dubai
Cities and towns United Arab Emirates Dubai
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Civilization.
United Arab Emirates Dubai
United Arab Emirates Dubayy (Emirate)

Added entries:

Kanna, Ahmed.
Aga Khan Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Aga Khan Program book series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283647
Call No.: BIB 222017
Status: Available