title: Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope (Planning, History and Environment Series)
author:  Yasser Elsheshtawy 
description: <P><STRONG>This volume provides a nonspecialist audience with a thorough overview of issues and approaches to contemporary Middle Eastern urbanism.</STRONG><EM> - Sophia Shwayri, Traditional Dewlling and Settlements Review, Spring 2005</EM></P> <P><STRONG>'Will inspire further critical investigation on the sites and cities of the Middle East that have until now been marginalized in the debates regarding globalization and urban change.'</STRONG><EM> - Journal of Architectural Education</EM></P> <P><STRONG>This book is a very informative and lively read that certainly adds fresh perspectives to the study of Arab cities This collection could be an interesting text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Middle East and urban/cultural studies.</STRONG> <EM>International Journal of Middle East Studies</EM> </P> <P></P> <P></P> <P><STRONG>A&nbsp;thorough overview of issues and approaches to contemporary Middle Eastern urbanism.</STRONG><EM> Traditional Dwelling and Settlements Review</EM></P> <P></P> <P><STRONG>The essays collected by Elsheshtawy raise as many questions as they answer, but this is also a strength of the book, which provides insights into places often grounded in an idealized past, both in their architecture and their architectural history.</STRONG> <EM>Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians</EM></P> <P><STRONG>This is a laudable collective effort with an excellent choice of case-studies which make a compelling argument in favour of the urban kaleidoscope. This certainly provides food for thought for architects, planners, urban specialists and historians working on and in the Middle East</STRONG> <EM>- Urban History Journal</EM></P>
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                                                                                             Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs 
   
                                                                                                          2019, Volume 2, Number 3, pages 31– 39 
   
   
   
  Multifunctionality of the oasis ecosystem. Case study: 
  Biskra Oasis, Algeria 
   
  * Ph.D. Candidate FATMA ZOHRA HADAGHA1, Ph.D. Candidate BOURHANE EDDINE FARHI 2, Dr. ABDALLAH 
  FARHI 3, Dr. ALEXANDRU-IONUT PETRISOR 4 
   
  1 Habitat and sustainable cities, Faculty of Architecture, University of Biskra, Algeria 
  2 Art of building and urban planning, University of Brussels, Belgium 
  3 Architecture and urban planning, University of Biskra, Algeria 
  4 Doctoral School of Urban Planning, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, Romania 
  E mail: atimaz9193@yahoo.fr  E mail: atimaz9193@yahoo.fr   E mail: farhi.a@voila.fr  E mail: alexandru_petrisor@yahoo.com  
    
   
   
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