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The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City: Edited by Susan Gilson Miller; Edited by Mauro Bertagnin; A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.; Paperback January 2010

The Superlative City: Edited by Ahmed Kanna; In the last few years, the Persian Gulf city of Dubai has exploded from the Arabian sands onto the world stage. In The Superlative City, contributors from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and colleagues offer the most serious analyses of the city to appear to date, situating remarkable developments such as the size of real estate projects and the speed of urbanization in their local and global architectural, political, and economic contexts.; Paperback January 2010