Arab Mega-Projects Editor : Pierre-Arnaud Barthel, University of Nantes and CEDEJ, Cairo

Built Environment Volume 36, number 2, June 2010

Mega-projects are at the core of contemporary Arab town planning, and the papers in this issue of Built Environment illustrate the primacy of the urban project in the planning of large cities in the Arab World over the last twenty years. That said, is there an ‘Arab’ way of creating big projects ? Can we highlight Arab specifi cities in the manner of implementation of such urban actions, or indeed within the eight countries – Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon and Syria – discussed by the contributors to this issue ?

CONTENTS

Arab Mega-Projects : Between the Dubai Eff ect, Global Crisis, Social Mobilization and a Sustainable Shift Pierre-Arnaud Barthel

Urban Highways as an Embodiment of Mega and Elite Projects : A New Realm of Confl icts and Claims in Three Middle Eastern Capital Cities Agnès Deboulet

Property Investments and Master Projects in Damascus : Urban and Town-Planning Metamorphosis Valérie Clerc and Armand Hurault

Tanger-Med and Casa-Marina, Prestige Projects in Morocco : New Capitalist Frameworks and Local Context Pierre-Arnaud Barthel and Sabine Planel

A Glimpse of Dubai in Khartoum and Nouakchott : Prestige Urban Projects on the Margins of the Arab World Armelle Choplin and Alice Franck

The Development of the Bay of Algiers : Rethinking the City through Contemporary Paradigms Madani Safar Zitoun

Major Urban Projects and the People Aff ected : The Case of Casablanca’s Avenue Royale Isabelle Berry-Chikhaoui

Reactions ‘From Below’ to Big Urban Projects : The Case of Rabat Hicham Mouloudi

Exception as the Rule : High-End Developments in Neoliberal Beirut Marieke Krij nen and Mona Fawaz

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