David Sims

Understanding Cairo (eBook, ePUB)

The Logic of a City Out of Control

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: I.B.Tauris
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781617973888
• Artikelnr.: 41339307

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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