变化的城市景观、不变的危机与中东新兴建筑实践

Changing Urban Landscapes,Enduring Crises,and Emerging Architectural Practices in the Middle East

本期专辑从两个不同而又相互依存的视角概述了从大到小尺度的中东地区当代建筑与城市生活,不仅介绍了杰出建筑项目和城市发展的主要趋势,还展现了在应对全球挑战中新兴的地方实践。与世界其他地区相仿,新自由主义城市政策在塑造中东当代城市景观方面发挥了重要作用1)[1-2]。在过去的40年中,公共服务私有化、经济适用房项目预算缩减、士绅化以及消费主义意识形态的兴起占主导地位[3]。

This special issue offers an overview of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East from two different yet interdependent angles’moving from the larger to the smaller scale.One deals with prominent architectural projects and dominant trends in urban development and the other with emerging local practices responding to global challenges.Similar to many other regions around the world,neoliberal urban policies played a major role in shaping the contemporary cityscapes in the Middle East.1)[1-2]The last four decades have been characterised by the privatisation of public services,cuts in the subsidisation of affordable housing programmes,gentrification.