Urban Planning in the Modern Middle East

Hooshang Amirahmadi

Chapter 18 in Regional Science in Developing Countries, 1997, pp 257-268 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Urban planning has a long history in the Middle East. Melville Branch (1981, p. 13) dates the first ‘city plan’, for Catal Huyuk, present-day Turkey, back to 8000 years ago. He bases this claim on the ordering and placement of eighty dwellings, which were delineated on the wall of a cave. Examples of city planning from both ancient and the Middle Ages periods abound in Iran, Egypt and Mesopotamia (present Iraq), among other Middle Eastern countries. This chapter, however, provides an overview of urban planning in the modern Middle East. There have been two major influences on contemporary urban planning in this region: colonialism and petroleum.

Keywords: Urban Planning; Middle East; United Arab Emirate; Middle Eastern; Master Plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_18

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