Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities Clothing ISBN: 9788862083379

ISBN: 9788862083379

part manifesto and part call-to-arms

like the design research project that preceded it

How do we design our cities when our most intimate experiences are incessantly tracked and our feelings become the base of new modes of production that prioritize the immaterial over the material

Published (date)August 11

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities Clothing ISBN: 9788862083379Contextually, with an eye on the present, the book reflects on the initiatives that recently re engaged with the once ville moderne which, meanwhile, lost its pivotal function and meaning. A city within a bigger city, the urban fabric produced during the modernization era has the potential to narrate the social growth, EastWest dynamics, and citizens memories of the recent past. Reading obsolescence as an opportunity, the book looks into this topic