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David Sims

Understanding Cairo

The Logic of a City Out of Control

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61797-388-8
  • EAN: 9781617973888
  • Produktnummer: 22570495
  • Verlag: I.B.Tauris
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 388 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 18'517 KB

Über den Autor


David Sims is an American economist and urban planner who has led a number of studies about Cairo's urban development and housing.

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