Kabul, aspects of urban geography / edited by Ghulam Jailani Arez, Andreas Dittmann.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Kabul city location and historical background—Main perspective Kabul as pre-industrial city—Strategic importance of Kabul—The ethnic features of Kabul city—Old trading centers—The old streets—Type of houses—Chronological development of Kabul city—Urbanization and development of Kabul city—Industrial structure of Kabul city—Urban structure of Kabul city—the new arrangement of Kabul sections—New phase for the collapse and ruins of Kabul—Kabul perspective destiny—Catastrophic disasters and ruins in Kabul—the New great games reconstruction aid in Afghanistan

by Andreas Dittmann—Out of crisis : the construction of Kabul as a challenge—Problems and proposals for urban planning—References.