Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities

<p>Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana’a Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo Marrakesh and Gaza the book explores urban planning and policy migration gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. </p><p></p><p>This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity urban politics planning and development in cities in the Middle East and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching Cities as multi-dimensional sites products of political processes knowledge production and exchange and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly in the different case studies and theoretical approaches there is no attempt to idealise urban politics planning and everyday life in the Middle East –– which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence –– but rather to highlight how cities in the region and especially those which are understudied revolve around issues of housing infrastructure participation and identity amongst other concerns.</p><p></p><p>Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.</p>