Ahmed Kanna

The politics of space and culture in Dubai in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Dubai, the City as Corporation

Xiangming Chen

Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.

Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities

Rethinking Global Urbanism

Essays in The Superlative City examine the speed and aesthetic brashness of Dubai's development in the early twenty-first century. Considering both visually arresting and less sensational elements of architecture, they situate Dubai's urbanism in its contexts of architecture, urban planning and design, and historical and cultural processes.

Ahmed Kanna

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