Rediscovering the Island: Doha's urbanity from pearls to spectacle

The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 218-257

  Adham, Khaled ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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EID: 84917424556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203696798     Document Type: Chapter

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