Urban utopias
Subtitle: regeneration, renewal and planning
By: Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah ... [et al.].
Contributors: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments; University of California, Berkeley. Center for Environmental Design Research
Series: Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 228; Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 228.
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Utopias; Congresses; Urban renewal; City planning; Cities and towns; Growth; Architecture and society
Notes: Cover title.

Papers presented at the IASTE conference held Dec. 15-18, 2010 in Beirut, Lebanon.

"Center for Environmental Design Research ... University of California at Berkeley"--P. [1] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Engineering Utopia: policy-makers and the Utopia future vision of Egypt  -- Hesham Khair Abdelfattah; title: Xishuangbanna in southwest China: a fantasized place and the lived experience of the place  -- Yun Gao; title: From Paris on the Nile to Dubai on the Nile: the impact of the Gulf on Cairo's vision plan 2050  -- Khaled Adham; title: Constructing future utopias: a new paradigm of knowledge-based urban development in Doha  -- Ali Alraouf; title: Politics of reinvention in Amman's downtown -- Eliana Abu Hamdi.