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Title:Middle Eastern Cities 1900-1950 : Public Places & Public Spheres in Transformation
Series:(Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus)
Author:Hans Christian Korsholm Nielsen & Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds)
ISBN:8772889063 : 9788772889061
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Pages:175
Weight: .91 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - January 2001
List Price: 22.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:City & town planning - architectural aspects: Asian/Middle Eastern history: from c1900-: Urban communities: Urban & municipal planning: Middle East: 20th century


This volume elucidates the dramatic changes taking place in Middle Eastern cities during the first half of the 20th century. During this period radical changes took place with the introduction of new public spheres and places and with these a new society emerged. The focus of the contributions is on the development of these changes and how they were experienced and interpreted by the inhabitants of the cities and towns.

Introduction: Public Places and Public Spheres in Transformation; Colonising Popular Culture or Creating Modernity?; Town Planning Schemes for Cairo; The Pleasure of Public Space Muhammad 'Ali Street and the Nightclubs in Cairo (1900-1950); Sex and Cinema in Damascus; The Early Museums and the Formation of Their Publics; Istanbul in the 1940's and the Garip Poets; The Appearance and Disappearance of Public Space; Construction of the Public Sphere in the Middle Eastern Medina During the First Half of the 20th Century.