Changes in economic and social conditions throughout the Middle East have been profound, and perhaps nowhere has this been more evident than in the field of urban development and town planning. This book, first published in 1979, provides a view of the Middle East as it undergoes transition by identifying and analysing the symptoms of change.
1. Urban Development in Society
2. Traditional Middle Eastern
Urbanisation
3. Economic Motivation for Change
4. Urban Revolution in the
Middle East
5. The Habitat Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, June
1976
6. Case Studies: New Towns
7. Case Studies: Planning Studies other than
New Towns
8. Case Study: a Research Study into Future Settlement Patterns in
the Middle East
9. An Urban Future for the Middle East
Hugh Roberts
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