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The urban social history of the Middle East, 1750-1950
\"The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use over the last few decades of the Islamic court records and Ottoman administrative documents, our knowledge of Middle Eastern cities between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries has vastly expanded. Drawing upon a treasure trove of documents and using a variety of methodologies, the contributors succeed in providing a significant overview of the ways in which Middle Eastern cities can be studied, as well as an excellent introduction to current literature in the field. Islam has often been characterized as an \"urban religion\"; recognizing Islam's deep ties to civic matters and to the city itself, the essays gathered here explore the interconnectedness between religion and its geography. The authors effectively define and map out urban social history in the Middle East from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, affording us a foundational volume that enriches our understanding of society in the late Ottoman and colonial periods\"--Jacket.
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The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950
The authors effectively define and map out urban social history in the Middle East from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, affording us a foundational volume that enriches our understanding of society in the late Ottoman and colonial periods.
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The fabric of cities : aspects of urbanism, urban topography and society in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome
The Fabric of Cities offers a diversified collection of articles on ancient urbanism in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, focussing on the social dimension of urban spaces and cultural views of city life, by drawing extensively on textual and archaeological sources.
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Routledge handbook on Middle East cities
Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. Moving beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching \"Cities\" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.
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Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities
Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, this book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity and the politics and economics of urban settings in the region.
This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning and development in cities in the Middle East and instead critically engages with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. It approaches \"cities\" as multidimensional sites; products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange; local and global visions; and spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning and everyday life in the Middle East - which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence - but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those that are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, among other concerns.
Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in geography and regional and urban studies of the Middle East.
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The archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant : from urban origins to the demise of city-states, 3700-1000 BCE
\"The Levant -- modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine -- is one of the most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated survey offers a state-of- the-art description of the formative phase of Levantine societies, as they perfected the Mediterranean village economy and began to interact with neighboring civilizations in Egypt and Syria, on the way to establishing their first towns and city-state polities. Citing numerous finds and interpretive approaches, Greenberg offers a new narrative of social and cultural development, emulation, resistance and change, illustrating how Levantine communities translated broader movements of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Bronze Age -- the emergence of states, international trade, elite networks and imperial ambitions -- into a uniquely Levantine idiom. Raphael Greenberg is associate professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Specializing in the study of early urban formations, economies and institutions, he currently heads the Tel Bet Yerah excavations near the Sea of Galilee and is co-founder of Emek Shaveh -- a non-profit that monitors the political role of archaeology in Jerusalem and beyond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Social housing in the Middle East : architecture, urban development, and transnational modernity
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the 19th century and how it will need to adapt to suit the 21st.
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Routledge handbook on Middle East cities
Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana'a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. Moving beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching \"Cities\" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East -- which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence -- but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.
Cities Through the Looking Glass
The essays in this book originated as papers presented at the
Conference on Urbanism in the Biblical World that took place on
October 28-30, 2003, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This
conference was part of the annual series of the Clifton Batchelder
Conference for Biblical Archaeology and the Bethsaida Excavations
Project.
The conference was structured so that text scholars and
material-culture scholars were able to interact and influence one
another. This interdisciplinary approach created a unique,
productive atmosphere where scholars who come from different
disciplines were able to share and exchange ideas in ways that
seldom happen in our increasingly specialized academic world. Thus,
scholars from three major disciplines-Greek philosophy, biblical
studies, and archaeology-produced lectures and papers on urbanism
in the ancient world that reflect multihued perspectives that draw
on the specialties of each contributor.
Few conferences on urbanism engage in an interdisciplinary
approach, and few deal with the questions raised in this book; even
fewer are published and see the light of day. In this volume, we
are pleased to be able to share a fine collection of essays from
the conference with the larger community of people interested in
the ancient world.
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