Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims ; with a foreword by Janet Abu-Lughod.
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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. [International version]. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "With a new Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo one year on"--Cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781617975059 1617975052 9781617973888 1617973882 9781617970405 1617970409 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |