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Title

Population, poverty, and politics in Middle East cities / edited by Michael E. Bonine.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bonine, Michael E., 1942-

Description

x, 361 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Comprises 15 highlighting the way the increase in population affects urban planning, preservation of historic city centres, political stability and living conditions in Middle East Cities.

Subject

• Urbanization > Middle East
• Urban poor > Middle East
• Urban policy > Middle East
• Urbanization > Middle East > Congresses
• Urban poor > Middle East > Congresses
• Urban policy > Middle East > Congresses
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Urban policy
• Urban poor
• Urbanization
• Armut
• Bevölkerungsentwicklung
• Sozialgeschichte
• Stadt
• Verstädterung
• Aufsatzsammlung
• urbanization
• politics
• religion
• population
• poverty
• urban planning
• cultural factor
• urban development
• informal economy
• social exclusion
• pollution
• sanitation
• Islam
• housing
• living conditions
• urban transport
• water requirements
• waste disposal
• nutrition
• health
• women
• maternity
• abortion
• case study
• Poverty > Middle East
• Cities and towns > Middle East
• urbanisation
• politique
• pauvreté
• aménagement urbain
• facteur culturel
• développement urbain
• économie informelle
• exclusion sociale
• salubrité
• islam
• logement
• conditions de vie
• transport urbain
• besoins en eau
• élimination des déchets
• santé
• femmes
• maternité
• avortement
• étude de cas
• urbanización
• política
• religión
• población
• pobreza
• planificación urbana
• factor cultural
• desarrollo urbano
• economía informal
• exclusión social
• contaminación ambiental
• saneamiento
• vivienda
• condiciones de vida
• transporte urbano
• necesidades de agua
• eliminación de basuras
• nutrición
• salud
• mujeres
• maternidad
• aborto
• estudio de casos
• Middle East > Politics and government
• Middle East > Social conditions
• Middle East > Politics and government > Congresses
• Middle East > Social conditions > Congresses
• Middle East
• Naher Osten
• Egypt
• Iran, Islamic Republic
• Jordan
• Middle East
• Oman
• Sudan
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Yemen
• Egypte
• Iran, République islamique
• Jordanie
• Moyen-Orient
• Soudan
• Tunisie
• Turquie
• Yémen
• Egipto
• Irán, República Islámica
• Jordania
• Oriente Medio
• Omán
• Sudán
• Túnez
• Turquía

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• A revision of papers most of which were presented at a conference held in March 1993 in Tucson, Arizona.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliograpical references and index.

Contents

Population, poverty, and politics : contemporary Middle East cities in crisis / Michael E. Bonine -- Urbanization and metropolitan municipal politics in Turkey / Metin Heper -- Ruptures in the evolution of the Middle Eastern city : Amman / Mohammad Al-Asad -- Urban conservation in the Old City of San'a / R. Brooks Jeffery -- Responding to Middle Eastern urban poverty : the informal economy in Tunis / Richard A. Lobban, Jr. -- Devotion as distinction, piety as power : religious revival and the transformation of space in the illegal settlements of Tunis / Elizabeth Vasile -- Muscat : social segregation and comparative poverty in the expanding capital of an oil state / Fred Scholz -- The crowded metropolis : health and nutrition in Cairo / Osman M. Galal and Gail G. Harrison -- Population, poverty, and gender politics : motherhood pressures and marital crises in the lives of poor urban Egyptian women / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Gender and health : abortion in urban Egypt / Sandra D. Lane -- Urbanization and political instability in the Middle East / Kirk S. Bowman and Jerrold D. Green -- Urbanization, migration, and the politics of protest in Iran / Farhad Kazemi and Lisa Reynolds Wolfe -- Islam, Islamism, and urbanization in Sudan : contradictions and complementaries / John Obert Voll -- The new veiling and urban crisis : symbolic politics in Cairo / Arlene Elowe MacLeod -- Are cities in the Middle East sustainable? / Michael E. Bonine.

ISBN

• 0813014743
• 9780813014746
• 0813014999
• 9780813014999

LCCN

96021377

OCLC

• ocm34675170
• 34675170
• SCSB-14662762

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library