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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.

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