TY - BOOK ID - 19251895 TI - Kuwait transformed PY - 2016 SN - 9780804796392 9780804798525 9780804798570 0804798575 0804796394 0804798524 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - City and town life KW - Urbanization KW - History. KW - Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Sociology of environment KW - Social geography KW - Kuwait KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Urban development KW - Urban systems KW - Cities and towns KW - Social history KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban policy KW - Rural-urban migration KW - City life KW - Town life KW - Urban life KW - Kuwait (City) KW - Kuwayt (Kuwait) KW - Kuweit (Kuwait) KW - Koweit (Kuwait) KW - مدينة الكويت (Kuwait) KW - Madīnat al-Kuwayt (Kuwait) KW - كويت (Kuwait) KW - Kuwait City (Kuwait) KW - Koeweit (Kuwait) KW - Koveyit (Kuwait) KW - Küveyt (Kuwait) KW - Kuwait Chhī (Kuwait) KW - Горад Кувейт (Kuwait) KW - Horad Kuveĭt (Kuwait) KW - Кувейт (Kuwait) KW - Kuveĭt (Kuwait) KW - Kuvajt (Kuwait) KW - Dinas Ciwait (Kuwait) KW - Kuwait-Stadt (Kuwait) KW - Πόλη του Κουβέιτ (Kuwait) KW - Polē tou Kouveit (Kuwait) KW - Ciudad de Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Kuvajturbo (Kuwait) KW - Cathair Chuáit (Kuwait) KW - Cubhait (Kuwait) KW - 쿠웨이트 (Kuwait) KW - K'uweit'ŭ (Kuwait) KW - Kuwait-Urbo (Kuwait) KW - Kota Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Эль-Кувейт (Kuwait) KW - Ėlʹ-Kuveĭt (Kuwait) KW - Kúveitborg (Kuwait) KW - Città del Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Kuwait Illoqarfik (Kuwait) KW - Jiji la Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Kowèt (Kuwait) KW - Kuveita (Kuwait) KW - Kuveitas (Kuwait) KW - Cità del Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Kuvaitváros (Kuwait) KW - Кувајт (Kuwait) KW - Bandar Kuwait (Kuwait) KW - Кувейт хот (Kuwait) KW - Kuveĭt khot (Kuwait) KW - Āltepētl Cuhuait (Kuwait) KW - クウェート市 (Kuwait) KW - Kuwēto-shi (Kuwait) KW - クウェート (Kuwait) KW - Kuwēto (Kuwait) KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19251895 AB - 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. ER -