David Sims

Understanding Cairo

The Logic of a City Out of Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. A new post-revolution Afterword is included.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 151mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9789774165535
• ISBN-10: 9774165535
• Artikelnr.: 35325283

Autorenporträt

David Sims

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Foreword Janet Abu-Lughod
Introduction
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: Cairo Serendipity?
Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo One Year On
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index