03110cam a22004335i 4500 28263 28234 17562210 EG-ScBUE 20200308104213.0 121213s2012 ua abe f b 001 0 eng d 9789774165535 (pbk.) 9774165535 (OCoLC)ocn795130064 WRM eng rda WRM WRM YDXCP BDX CDX DLC EG-ScBUE f-ua--- 916.216 SIM 22 Sims, David, author. 6467 Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims ; with a foreword by Janet Abu-Lughod. First paperback edition. Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. xxiii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "With a new Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo one year on"-- Cover. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 : serendipity? -- Postscript: revolutionary Cairo one year on. 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" -- Cover. Urbanization Egypt Cairo. BUEsh Sociology, Urban Egypt Cairo. BUEsh City planning Egypt Cairo. BUEsh Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel. BUEsh BUSBOL GGEN March2020 Reading book 34232 Abu-Lughod, Janet L., author of introduction, etc. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1407/2012288479-t.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1407/2012288479-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1407/2012288479-b.html ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2020-03-08 Purchase 2 6 916.216 SIM 000048916 2026-02-25 00:00:00 2026-02-10 2020-03-08 BB