Urban development in the Muslim world / ed. Hooshang Amirahmadi and Salah S. el-Shakhs.

Urban development in the Muslim world : encounter with modernity and implications for planning / Hooshang Amirahmadi and Mohamad R. Razavi -- The Islamic city : historic myth, Islamic essence, and contemporary relevance / Janet L. Abu-Lughod -- Planning and development in Makkah / Nohad A. Toulan -- The walled city of Delhi : retrospect and prospect / Samuel V. Noe -- Urbanization and developemnt : the role of the medina in the Maghreb / Jean-François Troin -- The transfromation of Tehran from a garrison town to a primate city : a tale of rapid growth and uneven development / Hooshang Amirahmadi and Ali Kiafar -- Planning problems and policies in Tehran / Vincent F. Costello -- Migration, religion, and economic development in the building sector of Sanaa and Cairo / G١nter Meyer --Impact of the oil industry on urbanization in the Persian Gulf Region / RichardI. Lawless and Ian J. Seccombe -- Decentralized urbanization in Syria / Riad G.Mahayni -- Population dynamics, urbanization, and the planning of large