Yasser Elsheshtawy

Arab Modernism(s) (eBook, ePUB)

Cities, History, and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arab Modernism(s) 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 father's 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 ¿ction and ¿lm, 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 Fathy's 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 author's father, Hassan Elsheshtawy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040856550
• Artikelnr.: 76008728

Autorenporträt

Yasser Elsheshtawy is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York and Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, DC. He is author or editor of ¿ve other books in the Routledge Planning, History and Environment series including Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia and Riyadh: Transforming a Desert City.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Modernism Fetish Chapter 2. Gourna: An
Interesting Failure Chapter 3. Modernizing Cairo: Urban Transformations and
the Inexorable March Towards the Desert Chapter 4. Algiers: 'Rock the
Casbah' and Post-Colonial Legacies Chapter 5. Rabat, Casablanca and the
Politics of Exclusion Chapter 6. Amman: A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 7.
Beirut: Urban Violence, Heterotopias and Terrain Vague Chapter 8. Riyadh:
Modernity, Tradition and the Quest for Identity Chapter 9. Kuwait: Spatial
Marginalization and Exclusion Chapter 10. Doha: Urban Palimpsests and the
Erasure of Memory Chapter 11. Parallel Modernities: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and
'Never the Twain Shall Meet' Chapter 12. Coda: My Architect, Hassan
Elsheshtawy.