L’imagerie urbanistique à Koweït : de l’image de ville à l’image-ville
Urbanistic imagery is the starting point for a reflection on the tensions between the projected city and the lived city in Kuwait City. This article proposes an internal look at the images of urban projects, where social geography questions the processes that produce them as well as the places and p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Arabian Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/arabianhumanities/4180 |
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| Summary: | Urbanistic imagery is the starting point for a reflection on the tensions between the projected city and the lived city in Kuwait City. This article proposes an internal look at the images of urban projects, where social geography questions the processes that produce them as well as the places and people who receive them. The analysis, based on photographs, observations and interviews conducted on the ground, first establishes the central role played by advertisers in the urbanization process, while revealing the tensions generated by their domination on the urban scene. The article then shows that the images tend to become autonomous from the projects they support, accentuating the process of “virtualisation” of the city. Finally, the article opens on the excesses of urban neoliberalism, of which the obsolete and diverted billboards in Kuwait City can be considered a symptom. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-6122 |