Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control /

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 neighbourhoods, housing, traffic and transport, city government, and its people and their enterprises.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sims, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
Edition:[US & CA territories only version].
Series:Cairo Scholarship Online.
Subjects:
Urbanization > Egypt > Cairo.
Sociology, Urban > Egypt > Cairo.
City planning > Egypt > Cairo.
Urbanisation > Égypte > Le Caire.
Sociologie urbaine > Égypte > Le Caire.
TRAVEL > Africa > General.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Travel.
Urbanization.
Cairo (Egypt) > Description and travel.
Egypt > Cairo.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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