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Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai

2022; University of California Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2022.81.1.116

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Ahlam Ammar Sharif,

Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Book Review| March 01 2022 Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai Todd Reisz Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021, 336 pp., 115 b/w illus. $30 (cloth), ISBN 9781503609884 Ahlam Ammar Sharif Ahlam Ammar Sharif The Hashemite University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (1): 116–118. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.1.116 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ahlam Ammar Sharif; Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2022; 81 (1): 116–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.1.116 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search The emirate of Dubai has long been synonymous with aggressive economic development, promoting the design and construction of numerous extravagant architectural landmarks. Branded as “the city of superlatives,” Dubai has been the topic of numerous books and articles documenting its humble origins and its journey from rags to riches.1 In Showpiece City, Todd Reisz provides a comprehensive and detailed account of Dubai’s urbanization from the 1950s to the present. He utilizes a multifaceted storytelling approach to capture the roles of architecture, politics, economics, and technology in shaping Dubai’s current reality, beginning with its origins as an impoverished British protectorate, one of the Trucial States of the Arabian Peninsula. Although numerous scholars have attempted to elucidate the architectural history of key cities of the Persian Gulf, much of this work has been overly broad or unduly narrow in its subjects of inquiry. For example, Peter Jackson and Anne Coles’s... You do not currently have access to this content.