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Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims ; with a foreword by Janet Abu-Lughod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sims, David, 1948 June 23- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cairo (Egypt)--Description and travel.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "With a new Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo one year on"-- Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781617973888
- 1617973882
- 9781617975059
- 1617975052
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