Social housing in the Middle East : architecture, urban development, and transnational modernity /
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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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2019
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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
