Social housing in the Middle East : architecture, urban development, and transnational modernity

Social housing in the Middle East : architecture, urban development, and transnational modernity / edited by Kıvanç Kılınç and Mohammad Gharipour.

Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kılınç, Kıvanç (Editor), Gharipour, Mohammad (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Housing policy > Middle East.
Urbanization > Middle East.
Land use, Urban > Middle East.
City planning > Middle East.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
City planning
Housing policy
Land use, Urban
Urbanization
Middle East
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Part I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform; 2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing; 3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt; 4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey; Part II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond; 5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia; 6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948-53
  • 7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait; Part III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices; 9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements; 10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945-60; 11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in İzmir; Index

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