Towards a Critique of an Architectural Nahdha: A Kuwaiti Example

Abstract

The decades from the 1950s to the 1980s marked a period of political independence and nation-building for the Kuwaiti welfare state. In 1952, a socioeconomic agenda was introduced to channel oil revenues into development programs that included a large-scale urban renewal scheme. The dissertation focuses on the urban transformation of Kuwait City, the emergence of the suburb as a modern lifestyle alternative to traditional urban living, and the state operational systems that were put in place ...