Building Sharjah
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Edited by:
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
About this book
Building Sharjah reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the world’s final cities shaped by transformative fortune. In the footsteps of Kuwait, Riyadh, and Dubai, Sharjah faced a metamorphosis: either one that repeated the past’s mistakes or one that reimagined how wealth can build a city.
Sharjah’s potential enticed an international cast of experts to create a bold, new city. As their projects begin to vanish, this book preserves them through unseen photographs and recovered documents. New writing chronicles how local and arriving residents arranged the designed, concrete environment into a home. Beyond just a local artifact, this book examines the confident promises made by global practices of urbanization.
- An untold tale of how a city materialized on the promises of modern architecture
- Unpublished and unseen visual material
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New scholarship connecting Sharjah to global discussions of cities
Author / Editor information
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi writer and lecturer, Sharjah. Todd Reisz architect and writer, Amsterdam
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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THE LONGEST NIGHTS WITH JOY ARE SHORT
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WRITING SHARJAH’S LANDSCAPE
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SHARJAH: SNAPSHOTS OF AN EMIRATE IN THE NASCENT UNION OF THE ARABIAN GULF
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PERFORMING MODERNITY AT THE CENTRAL SOUK
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UNRAVELED: MAKING BUILDING SHARJAH
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SCHOOLS FOR THE ARAB HOMELAND: KUWAIT’S EDUCATIONAL MISSION IN SHARJAH
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LAND, HOUSES, AND HOMES: A PALESTINIAN HISTORY OF AL FAYHA
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GOOD VIBRATIONS: LIVING IT UP IN SHARJAH’S HOTELS
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AN UNRELENTING LENS: SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AS JOURNALISM IN AL AZMENAH AL ARABIYA
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WHEN MEN GLOW IN SHARJAH
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SHARJAH IN A PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
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Sharjah, 1700–1995
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Other Projects in Sharjah
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Biographies & Company Profiles
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Index
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Manufacturer information:
Im Westfeld 8
CH-4055 Basel
Switzerland
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EU responsible person:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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