{"product_id":"social-housing-in-the-middle-east-architecture-urban-development-and-transnational-modernity-9780253039859","title":"Social Housing in the Middle East  Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSocial Housing in the Middle East\u003c\/em\u003e traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e * RIBA Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers.\u003c\/p\u003e * CAA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East \/ Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad Gharipour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing \/ Eliana Abu-Hamdi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt \/ Mohamed Elshahed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey \/ Bülent Batuman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia \/ Nancy Demerdash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 \/ Yael Allweil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity \/ Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait \/ Mae Al-Ansari\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements \/ Noam Shoked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 \/ Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir \/ Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk Yılmaz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400585290071,"sku":"9780253039859","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253039859.jpg?v=1730471044","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-housing-in-the-middle-east-architecture-urban-development-and-transnational-modernity-9780253039859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}