Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life Planner featuring a dynamic black-and-white diagonal

featuring a dynamic black-and-white diagonal stripe design and a vibrant blue tip

Rasem Badran's influence is rapidly spreading throughout the developing world

Straus and Giroux

3 kg aluminum

Dimensions: 29

Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life Planner featuring a dynamic black-and-white diagonalAs the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanisation, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid twentieth century inaugurated a now familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble fronted buildings, vast suburbs and wide highways. Al Nakib traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, social