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Chaalan : Formation et mutations d'un quartier de Damas 1920-2010
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ISBN: 2351595521 2351597559 Year: 2021 Publisher: Beyrouth – Damas : Presses de l’Ifpo,

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Comment un modeste quartier résidentiel, né à l’époque du Mandat français, est-il devenu un des centres de la vie intellectuelle et politique syrienne des années 1950-1960, puis un conservatoire de l’architecture et de l’espace urbains modernes ainsi que le principal lieu de commerces et de loisirs du centre ville de Damas ? Chaalan, quartier cosmopolite et espace de modernité sociale et architecturale dès sa formation, occupe en effet une place particulière dans l’évolution générale de la capitale syrienne. Cet ouvrage, résultat d’une recherche collective et pluridisciplinaire menée principalement entre 2005 et 2010 par une équipe franco-syrienne, propose de reconstituer l’histoire de ce « morceau de ville » en remontant dans la mémoire de ses familles fondatrices et de certains de ses habitants les plus anciens. Il propose aussi de rendre compte des principales mutations qu’a connues le quartier et de développer enfin une réflexion sur les notions de patrimoine habité et de patrimoine immatériel, réflexion qui pourrait permettre de répondre, en ces temps sombres que traverse la Syrie, à des questions comparables que posent aussi bien la préservation d’autres quartiers de Damas datant de la même époque que la reconstruction des villes syriennes affectées par la guerre.


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18 Degrees: Capital Gate - Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi
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ISBN: 3038210188 9783038210184 303821583X 9783038215837 9783038215837 303821583X 9783038216728 3038216720 Year: 2016 Publisher: Basel

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Spektakulärer Turm in Abu Dhabi This spectacular building is at the crossroads of dominating architectural trends: parametrically designed, it features a Diagrid structural frame and an innovate structural core, allowing it to be the world’s furthest leaning tower. Developed by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Company, it will host, on its opening in 2013, the Exhibition Center and a Hyatt Hotel. The combination of technological pioneership with a striking appearance and a world-wide functional use will bring this building to the attention of all those who cherish the challenge in contemporary lifestyle. To be published in time for the buildings opening, this book by the building’s leading architects will convey the drama and the details in a stunning volume.


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Kuwait transformed : a history of oil and urban life
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ISBN: 9780804796392 9780804798525 9780804798570 0804798575 0804796394 0804798524 Year: 2016 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings, vast suburbs, and wide highways. In Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib connects the city's past and present, from its settlement in 1716 to the twenty-first century, through the bridge of oil discovery. She traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, and social behaviors and relations in Kuwait. The history that emerges reveals how decades of urban planning, suburbanization, and privatization have eroded an open, tolerant society and given rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti social relations today. The book makes a call for a restoration of the city that modern planning eliminated. But this is not simply a case of nostalgia for a lost landscape, lifestyle, or community. It is a claim for a "right to the city"—the right of all inhabitants to shape and use the spaces of their city to meet their own needs and desires.

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City and town life --- Urbanization --- History. --- Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Sociology of environment --- Social geography --- Kuwait --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Kuwait (City) --- Kuwayt (Kuwait) --- Kuweit (Kuwait) --- Koweit (Kuwait) --- مدينة الكويت (Kuwait) --- Madīnat al-Kuwayt (Kuwait) --- كويت (Kuwait) --- Kuwait City (Kuwait) --- Koeweit (Kuwait) --- Koveyit (Kuwait) --- Küveyt (Kuwait) --- Kuwait Chhī (Kuwait) --- Горад Кувейт (Kuwait) --- Horad Kuveĭt (Kuwait) --- Кувейт (Kuwait) --- Kuveĭt (Kuwait) --- Kuvajt (Kuwait) --- Dinas Ciwait (Kuwait) --- Kuwait-Stadt (Kuwait) --- Πόλη του Κουβέιτ (Kuwait) --- Polē tou Kouveit (Kuwait) --- Ciudad de Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Kuvajturbo (Kuwait) --- Cathair Chuáit (Kuwait) --- Cubhait (Kuwait) --- 쿠웨이트 (Kuwait) --- K'uweit'ŭ (Kuwait) --- Kuwait-Urbo (Kuwait) --- Kota Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Эль-Кувейт (Kuwait) --- Ėlʹ-Kuveĭt (Kuwait) --- Kúveitborg (Kuwait) --- Città del Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Kuwait Illoqarfik (Kuwait) --- Jiji la Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Kowèt (Kuwait) --- Kuveita (Kuwait) --- Kuveitas (Kuwait) --- Cità del Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Kuvaitváros (Kuwait) --- Кувајт (Kuwait) --- Bandar Kuwait (Kuwait) --- Кувейт хот (Kuwait) --- Kuveĭt khot (Kuwait) --- Āltepētl Cuhuait (Kuwait) --- クウェート市 (Kuwait) --- Kuwēto-shi (Kuwait) --- クウェート (Kuwait) --- Kuwēto (Kuwait) --- History

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