Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life Planner Straus and Giroux

Straus and Giroux

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Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life Planner Straus and GirouxAs the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanisation, 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. Al Nakib traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, social