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a city state : Kuwait's urban landscape : the aerial view of modernist planning

By Yousef Awaad Hussein

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Publish Date

2017

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Language

eng

Pages

120

Description:

"This research positions Kuwait as a case study through which to consider the relationships between aerial vision and master planning, as well as the legacy of British imperial development in the GCC region. Through investigating the rapid development of Kuwait during the mid-20th century, it addresses a void in critical scholarship on the impact of the aerial perspective on the seemingly amorphous urban environment of the Arabian Gulf"--Page [4].