Arab Sustainable Urbanism: Worlding Strategies, Local Struggles Eric Verdeil Megaprojects Arab Cities Rentier States Climate Change Green Urbanism Unlike many metropolises that use green urbanism as a worlding strategy, Arab cities seem reluctant to embark on ambitious schemes addressing sustainability issues. To explain this situation, the article highlights three arguments. Firstly, as state-led governance prioritizes social stability, existing green plans have been scrapped in the face of political threats. Second, large, allegedly sustainable projects such as Masdar should not hide ongoing unsustainable urbanization features. Thirdly, the dominant framings of sustainability tend to focus on global issues (greenhouse gas emissions and low carbon energy), hence neglecting local claims for sustainability that do not fit into global environmental narratives. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2019 2019-06-25 2019-07-03 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2019-230-79359 eng 2714728-9 12 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/7935/7874 10.17192/meta.2019.12.7935 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/230/7935 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0