The Middle East city : ancient traditions confront a modern world /
edited by Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf.
- New York : Paragon House, (c)1987.
- xx, 393 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Middle East Chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy. "A PWPA book."
Includes bibliographies and index.
Islamic identity and the metropolis : continuity and conflict The Islamic city and the Western city : a comparative analysis Population movement and urbanization in the Arab world Ideological constants and urban living Old Sanaa as an existing model for the Islamic city Sanaa Al-Qadeema : the challenges of modernization Sanaa : a profile of a changing city The repercussions of Israel's occupation of Jerusalem Islamic Jerusalem as archetype of a harmonious urban environment Zion and the two Jerusalems A sociological profile The big urban bias Integrated village development and the housing problem of urban Egypt An historical perspective of the city Reconstruction : theory and practive A pictorial essays of the reconstruction process Urbanization trends in Turkey Environmental problems of urbanization Urbanization and political behavior Communication in the Middle East city of the 1990s The provision of essential services in the future city Ervin Y. Galantay -- Cyrus Mechkat -- Osman M. Osman -- Fuad I. Khuri -- Ali Oshaish -- Fritz Piepenberg -- Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf -- Henry Cattan -- Abdullah Schleifer -- Yitzhak Khayutman -- Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Hoda M. Sobhi -- Abdel K. El-Ahwal -- John Munro -- Friedrich Ragette -- Hana Abu Khadra -- Sabahaddin Zaim -- Erdogan Alkin -- Esat Cam -- Joseph Ben-Dak -- Kenneth Mellanby.