... cultural identity challenges and participation-related alienation, thereby reducing well-being. Context plays a critical role: a supportive innovation climate amplifies empowerment effects, whereas technological anxiety intensifies cultural disruption and its negative consequences. Research limitations...

.... The results show how globalisation and neoliberalism led Manama to emerge as a global city. Cultural identity and geographic location within the Bahraini metropolitan area suggest these relationships are dynamic. Planners perceived Bahraini cities as a morphological phenomenon. They did not comprehend...

... of these is ‘culture,’¹ in terms of cultural identity and continuity. I then argue that ‘culture’ can also be seen as possibly the major obstacle to preservation. I restate my position that ‘culture’ is both too broad and too abstract to be usable, and apply a specific approach which I have used for other...