Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims.
2010
DT143 .S36 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims.
Author
Sims, David.
ISBN
9789774164040
9774164040
9774164040
Publication Details
Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
335 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DT143 .S36 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
916.216
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 failed attempts of the State to create the new, modern Egypt in the deserts surrounding Cairo and their unintended consequences as a colossal speculative frontier are given a special focus. 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.
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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?
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?