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Sims, David - Understanding Cairo: the logic of a city out of control
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| Schrijver: | Sims, David |
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| Titel: | Understanding Cairo: the logic of a city out of control |
| ISBN: | 9789774165535 |
| Uitgever: | The American University in Cairo Press |
| Bijzonderheid: | 2012, 360pp, paperback, in goede staat |
| Prijs: | € 17,50 |
| Meer info | 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 |
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