Broschiertes Buch

Routledge Handbook on Cairo

Histories, Representations and Discourses

Herausgeber: Alsayyad, Nezar

Beschreibung

This Routledge Handbook on Cairo simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today and provides both the general and the specialized reader with an authoritative reference for the city.

Autor

Nezar AlSayyad is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Planning and Urban History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed and also served for two decades as Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). He is a founder and past President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), and Editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). Among his grants and awards are those from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Getty Center, Ford and the Graham Foundations, and a Guggenheim Distinguished Fellowship. He has authored and edited numerous books, several of which have been translated into other languages, among them Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River (2019); Traditions: The Real, The Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment (2014); Cairo: Histories of a City (2011); The Fundamentalist City? (2010); Cinematic Urbanism (2006); Making Cairo Medieval (2005); and Cities and Caliphs (1991).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781032300863
• ISBN-10: 1032300868
• Artikelnr.: 73143038