Understanding Cairo
The Logic of a City Out of Control
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…
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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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