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Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims ; with a foreword by Janet Abu-Lughod.
Author
Sims, David
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st paperback ed.
Published/Created
Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, ©2010, 2012.
Description
xxiii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm
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Architecture Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Architecture Library Use Only
DT143 .S36 2012
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Subject(s)
Urbanization
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Egypt
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Cairo
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Sociology, Urban
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Egypt
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Cairo
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City planning
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Egypt
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Cairo
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Cairo (Egypt)
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Description and travel
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Abu-Lughod, Janet L.
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Summary note
Trying to make sense of the urban giant that is Cairo. "This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are portrayed and mapped: the huge, spontaneous neighborhoods; housing; traffic and transport; city government; and its people and their enterprises. The book argues that understanding a city such as Cairo is not a daunting task as long as pre-conceived notions are discarded and care is taken to apprehend available information and to assess it with a critical eye. In the case of Cairo, this approach leads to a conclusion that the city can be considered a kind of success story, in spite of everything" -- Cover.
Notes
"With a new Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo one year on"-- Cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-345) and index.
Contents
Imaging Cairo
Cairo is Egypt and Egypt is Cairo
A history of modern Cairo : three cities in one
Informal Cairo triumphant
Housing real and speculative
The desert city today
Working in the city
City on the move : a complementary informality?
Governing Cairo
Summing up : serendipity?
Postscript: revolutionary Cairo one year on.
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ISBN
9789774165535 ((pbk.))
9774165535
LCCN
2012288479
OCLC
795130064
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