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Building migrant cities in the Gulf: urban transformation in the Middle East

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: I.B. Tauris Publishers 2019 LondonDescription: xiii, 245 p. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9781788310680
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.760953 W4B8
Summary: Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate workforces and foreigners arriving from various places. Recent migration patterns in the Gulf have led to emerging 'airport societies' on unprecedented scales. Most guest workers, both labourers and mid to high-income groups perceive their stay as a temporary opportunity to earn suitable income or gain experience. This timely book analyses the essential characteristics of this unique urban phenomenon substantiated by concrete examples and empirical research. Both authors have lived and worked in the Gulf including Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates during various periods between 2006 and 2014. They explore Gulf cities from macro and interconnected perspectives rather than focusing solely on singular aspects within the built environment. As academic architects specialised in urbanism and the complex dynamics between people and places the authors build new bridges for understanding demographic and social changes impacting urban transformations in the Gulf. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-migrant-cities-in-the-gulf-9781788310680/
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Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Migration and urban transformation
Migration and housing
Migration as historic heritage in the Gulf
Welfare states, migration and urban transformation
The structure of the book
2.Visions of migration-based urbanism
The social and economic realities along the Gulf coast
Key characteristics of recent development visions
Conclusion
3.Enabling housing supply through new forms of governance
Historic governance and housing supply in the Gulf
Urban entrepreneurialism as a new form of governance
New restructuring tendencies within governance
4.Mega projects: A catalyst for migrant urbanism
Dubai as pioneer of event urbanism
The case of New Dubai
Liberalized real estate markets in Bahrain
A comparative discourse on two pioneers
5.New housing typologies and urban consolidation
Manama's three urban expansions
The spatial transformation of Manama
Contents note continued: New development dynamics in Doha
The resulting urban fragmentation in Doha
6.Lifestyle trends and multicultural perceptions
Lifestyle trends in Gulf cities
Lifestyle groups and their neighbourhoods
Multiculturalism in the Gulf
Multicultural perceptions in Qatar
7.The everyday urban environment of migrant communities
Traditional migrant neighbourhoods
Contemporary everyday urbanism
Mega projects and future everyday urbanism
8.Building sustainable migrant cities
A discourse on space production theories
The role of housing in producing urban qualities
Towards sustainable urbanism in the Gulf
Conclusion.

Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate workforces and foreigners arriving from various places. Recent migration patterns in the Gulf have led to emerging 'airport societies' on unprecedented scales. Most guest workers, both labourers and mid to high-income groups perceive their stay as a temporary opportunity to earn suitable income or gain experience. This timely book analyses the essential characteristics of this unique urban phenomenon substantiated by concrete examples and empirical research. Both authors have lived and worked in the Gulf including Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates during various periods between 2006 and 2014. They explore Gulf cities from macro and interconnected perspectives rather than focusing solely on singular aspects within the built environment. As academic architects specialised in urbanism and the complex dynamics between people and places the authors build new bridges for understanding demographic and social changes impacting urban transformations in the Gulf.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-migrant-cities-in-the-gulf-9781788310680/

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