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By Nasser Golzari
This is often the 1st ebook ever to envision the structure and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a whole entity, dealing both with stipulations at the japanese Iranian coastline as in Arabic nations at the western facet. via inviting a number of architects and students to jot down approximately old and modern affects on 14 towns alongside either Gulf coastlines, the e-book lines the alterations in structure and human cost relating to environmental components and particularity of position. It presents an leading edge contribution to the learn of structure and globalisation via an in depth research of this actual sector, investigating how structures and towns are being formed for this reason. a suite of thematic essays on the finish supply vital insights into problems with globalisation, urbanism and environmental layout, drawing from the adventure of the Persian Gulf. the end result is a special list of the Gulf within the early-21st century at some extent while worldwide capitalism is making significant inroads and but questions of architectural layout, weather switch, ecological sustainability, cultural identification and so-called 'Facebook Democracy' are likewise shaking up the center jap sector. The ebook therefore bargains a clean examining of the structure and urbanism of a desirable and sometimes contradictory quarter, whereas additionally displaying how globalisation will be analysed in a extra engaged and built-in manner.
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20 ROPME, State of the Marine Environment Report 2003 (Kuwait: Regional Organization for Protection of Marine Environment, 2004). 21 Lefaivre, Liane and Tzonis, Alexander, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (London/New York: Routledge, 2012). 22 Somers Clarke, ‘The Use of Mud-Brick in Egypt’, Cairo Scientific Journal, vol. 2, no. 21 (June 1908), p. 211. , AlManakh 2: Gulf Continued, Archis, Volume, no. 23 (2010). 24 Davis, Mike, ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’, New Left Review, no.
Causes of this heavy pollution include the presence of oil and gas industries along the Arabian side (on land and offshore), discharges from coastal desalination and power plants, residues from wars in the form of shipwrecks/ oil spills/oilwell fires, unchecked sewage waste, aggressive ‘alien’ marine species brought in inadvertently by international tankers, and – not least of all – the rapid urban development of cities like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha or Kuwait City, each of which contains a staggering 80–90 per cent of their country’s population.
Furthermore, an interesting body of slightly older texts on Arabic architecture and urbanism, which either directly or indirectly covers the Persian Gulf region, includes: Stefano Bianca, Urban Form in the Arab World (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000); Paolo M. Costa, Studies in Arabian Architecture (London: Variorium, 1994); Kenneth Frampton, Charles Correa & David Robson (eds), Modernity and Community: Architecture in the Islamic World (London: Thames & Hudson/Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, 2001); Mustafa M.