東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty...

Mhmood, Fatma.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter./
Author:	Mhmood, Fatma.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	89 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-12.
Subject:	Ecology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28540728
ISBN:	9798516924262

The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter.
Mhmood, Fatma.

The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 89 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.

Thesis (M.Des.)--Harvard University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The desert, commonly understood as a barren and infertile landscape, is not empty. This thesis reads the desert landscape as an archive full of social, economic, and political narratives using the Empty Quarter as a case study. The Empty Quarter, in Arabic Rub al-Khali, stretches across the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula including Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The overarching understanding of deserts as a void has obscured the Empty Quarter's image as a home to Bedouin tribes and a site of natural resource extraction, agricultural land, and a testing ground for scientific research. Furthermore, the inability to understand the desert ecology is causing current urban processes to be resource intensive as the adjacent cities expand.By providing a new reading of the desert ecology, this thesis speculates how design and planning in arid regions can mediate between social values, aesthetics, and environmental challenges to arrive at ecological urban development. This thesis draws from multiple sources, including the analysis of archival materials, historic maps, artworks, field observation, myths, and tribal poetry, in order to arrive at a novel understanding of the Empty Quarter's ecosystem. It is not a void, but rather a space that adjacent cities depend upon to meet the social and material needs of their inhabitants.

ISBN: 9798516924262Subjects--Topical Terms:

516476
Ecology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Arabian Peninsula

The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter.
LDR:02454nmm a2200373 4500 001 2282393
005 20211001100839.5
008 220723s2021 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9798516924262
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI28540728
035 $a AAI28540728
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Mhmood, Fatma. $3 3561195
245 1 4 $a The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2021
300 $a 89 p.
500 $a Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.
500 $a Advisor: Doherty, Gareth.
502 $a Thesis (M.Des.)--Harvard University, 2021.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a The desert, commonly understood as a barren and infertile landscape, is not empty. This thesis reads the desert landscape as an archive full of social, economic, and political narratives using the Empty Quarter as a case study. The Empty Quarter, in Arabic Rub al-Khali, stretches across the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula including Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The overarching understanding of deserts as a void has obscured the Empty Quarter's image as a home to Bedouin tribes and a site of natural resource extraction, agricultural land, and a testing ground for scientific research. Furthermore, the inability to understand the desert ecology is causing current urban processes to be resource intensive as the adjacent cities expand.By providing a new reading of the desert ecology, this thesis speculates how design and planning in arid regions can mediate between social values, aesthetics, and environmental challenges to arrive at ecological urban development. This thesis draws from multiple sources, including the analysis of archival materials, historic maps, artworks, field observation, myths, and tribal poetry, in order to arrive at a novel understanding of the Empty Quarter's ecosystem. It is not a void, but rather a space that adjacent cities depend upon to meet the social and material needs of their inhabitants.
590 $a School code: 0084.
650 4 $a Ecology. $3 516476
650 4 $a Landscape architecture. $3 541842
650 4 $a Aesthetics. $3 523036
653 $a Arabian Peninsula
653 $a Arid land
653 $a Desert
653 $a Ecological urbanism
653 $a Urbanism
690 $a 0329
690 $a 0390
690 $a 0650
710 2 $a Harvard University. $b Advanced Studies Program. $3 3559407
773 0 $t Masters Abstracts International $g 82-12.
790 $a 0084
791 $a M.Des.
792 $a 2021
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28540728