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Windtower: The Merchant Houses of Dubai - Hardcover

Jackson, Peter; Coles, Anne

 
9781911487616: Windtower: The Merchant Houses of Dubai
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1911487612 ISBN 13: 9781911487616
Verlag: Medina Publishing Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Windtower offers a unique insight into a past way of life, exploring Dubai's rich and storied past and heritage. This new and extended edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the formation of the United Arab Emirates, diving deeper into the merchant community's central role in Dubai's pre-oil economy and social life. This new edition also considers the lessons to be learned from Dubai's traditional wind towers at a time of global warming and climate crisis and how this knowledge might benefit contemporary urban design. The title features a foreword from His Royal Highness, Charles, King of England, who writes: "I do hope this book will enable other people to join in appreciating the unique nature of these buildings and that it will encourage an awareness of how relevant many of their distinctive features are to the modern challenges of building sustainable communities in a way that maximizes the use of renewable energy." With exclusive archival photography, custom maps, as well as original architectural plans and diagrams, Windtower is a essential book for anyone interested in Dubai's architecture, culture and fascinating historical development.

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Peter Jackson is an author and a historian.

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Verlag
Medina Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1911487612
ISBN 13 
9781911487616
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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