02811cam a2200373 a 4500 OSt 20240530110424.0 121213t20122010ua abe f b 001 0 eng d 9789774165535 (pbk.) 9774165535 (OCoLC)ocn795130064 EG-CaGPL EG-CaGPL lccopycat f-ua--- 21 916.216 CC/S U Sims, David. Understanding Cairo : the logic of a city out of control / David Sims ; with a foreword by Janet Abu-Lughod. 1st paperback ed. Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, c2010, 2012. xxiii, 360 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm. "With a new Postscript: Revolutionary Cairo one year on"-- Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-345) 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. Sociology, Urban Egypt Cairo. City planning Egypt Cairo. Cairo (Egypt) Description and travel. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 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 BK 60722 60722 0 0 ddc 0 0 CAI CAI 2015-03-22 0 916.216 CC/S U 159829 2015-03-22 00:00:00 2015-03-22 BK