Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life Planner featuring a dynamic black-and-white diagonal

featuring a dynamic black-and-white diagonal stripe design and a vibrant blue tip

vast suburbs and wide highways

He excellent selection of images illustrates the surprising variety of work

Additional features include an interview with filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi

and reviews of significant exhibitions across Asia and beyond

Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life Planner featuring a dynamic black-and-white diagonalAs the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanisation, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid twentieth century inaugurated a now familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble fronted buildings, vast suburbs and wide highways. Al Nakib traces the relationships between the urban landscape, patterns and practices of everyday life, social