{"pk":3822,"title":"Modernizing Kuwait: Nation-building and Unplanned Spatial Practices","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This is a study of city planning intentions and their unintended spatial practices as manifest in Kuwait’s urban center. Focusing on Kuwait’s public space, \nDuwwar El-Sheriton\n, its weekly migrant labor gathering is traced back to Kuwait’s first master plan in 1952 up until the present. In a modernizing city built on a very specific regime of labor migration and modernist/nationalist city planning that strategically censor the city’s duality, migrant worker’s spatial practices in Kuwait’s public space subvert their explicit exclusionary nature, injecting a brief public vision of communities rendered invisible by the official plan of the contemporary state.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"migration"},{"word":"planning"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rs0x68j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Reem","middle_name":"","last_name":"Alissa","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California at Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-11-15T20:38:59-05:00","date_accepted":"2011-11-15T20:38:59-05:00","date_published":"2011-11-15T20:40:14-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3822/galley/2479/download/"}]}