Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle, 1st Edition

Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development. With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network. Uniquely, it looks beyond the glamour of Dubai’s mega-projects, and provides an in-depth exploration of a select set of spaces which reveal the city’s ‘inner life’.Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle 1st Edition is written by Yasser Elsheshtawy and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle are 9781135261184, 1135261180 and the print ISBNs are 9780415832212, 0415832217. Additional ISBNs include 9780415444613, 9780203869703, 9781135261191, 9781135261146.