Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control

David Sims

ISBN 10: 9774165535 / ISBN 13: 9789774165535

Editore: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012

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• Titolo: Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control
• Editore: The American University in Cairo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9774165535
• ISBN 13: 9789774165535
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Bon

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Riassunto

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

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