ABSTRACT
George Shiber’s account of the development of Kuwait, describes a classic example of a traditional and small scale Arab urban settlement undergoing rapid growth and change as a result of the economic development of the country as a whole. The strategy of selfcontained new towns provides a different array of achieved objectives in that new development can be more easily selfcontained and discrete from existing urban areas and their growth patterns. In November 1976, Llewellyn Davies International, Planning Consultants, completed their report for the development of Tehran’s new city centre at Shahestan Pahlavi. In economic terms, Oman can be regarded as among the major oil producers of the region, but only just. One of the ways in which the Omani population will be able to make itself more readily available to provide the labour force for its own economic growth will be through the mobility.
