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Understanding Cairo de David Sims

Understanding Cairo

Autor David Sims
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2012
The Logic of a City Out of Control. Analysis of the ways the citys eighteen million inhabitants have built and shaped their own city.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789774165535
ISBN-10: 9774165535
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 151 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: American University in Cairo Press

Notă biografică

David Sims is an economist and urban planner who has been based in Egypt since 1974. As well as having worked in several Arab, Asian and African countries, he has led studies on urban development, industrial estates, tourism, and other aspects of Egypt's economic geography and spatial development. He is the author of Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City out of Control (AUC Press, pbk edition, 2012) and Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster (AUC Press, pbk edition, 2018).

Cuprins

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Foreword Janet Abu-Lughod
Introduction
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: Cairo Serendipity?
Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo One Year On
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index