Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

摘要

Dubai has attracted significant attention in the international media over the past few years, but rarely has the city been the subject of sustained academic analysis. Yasser Elsheshtawy's Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle is the first monograph to focus on the city's transforming urbanity. Subtly engaging with wider literatures on globalisation, consumption, migration, geography, urban planning and architecture, the book makes a hugely welcome contribution to a subject field otherwise dominated by political and economic analyses and to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies.