Cities from the Arabian desert
Subtitle: the building of Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia
By: Andrea H. Pampanini.
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Jubayl (Saudi Arabia); Madīnat Yanbuʻ al-Ṣināʻīyah (Saudi Arabia)
Description: Over the last two decades, at a cost of about $60 billion, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has constructed the largest public works projects in history - the new industrial cities of Jubail, on the Gulf, and Yanbu, on the Red Sea, the home of a huge and sophisticated petrochemical industry that claims almost ten percent of the world market.

This important work examines the evolution of the Saudis' capacity to plan such large projects; their creation of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, an independent super-agency with the power to cut through red tape and make multi-billion dollar moves on its own; their partnership with Bechtel Corporation and the Ralph M. Parsons Co. in the design and construction of the modern Saudi cities; the roles of entities such as Aramco and the SABIC; and the effects of the Gulf War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.