Dubai on Barada? The making of ‘globalized damascus’ in times of urban crisis

Under Construction: Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 259-270

  Vignal, Leïla ^a  

^a Rennes 2 University   (France)

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