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Urban Planning in the Modern Middle East

In: Regional Science in Developing Countries

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  • Hooshang Amirahmadi

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Urban planning has a long history in the Middle East. Melville Branch (1981, p. 13) dates the first ‘city plan’, for Catal Huyuk, present-day Turkey, back to 8000 years ago. He bases this claim on the ordering and placement of eighty dwellings, which were delineated on the wall of a cave. Examples of city planning from both ancient and the Middle Ages periods abound in Iran, Egypt and Mesopotamia (present Iraq), among other Middle Eastern countries. This chapter, however, provides an overview of urban planning in the modern Middle East. There have been two major influences on contemporary urban planning in this region: colonialism and petroleum.

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  • Hooshang Amirahmadi, 1997. "Urban Planning in the Modern Middle East," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Manas Chatterji & Yang Kaizhong (ed.), Regional Science in Developing Countries, chapter 18, pages 257-268, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25459-0_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_18
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