| Edition |
[US & CA territories only version]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Cairo Scholarship Online.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index. |
| Contents |
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? |
| Note |
Title from PDF of title page. |
| Summary |
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 neighbourhoods, housing, traffic and transport, city government, and its people and their enterprises. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cairo (Egypt) -- Description and travel.
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Urbanization -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Sociology, Urban -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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TRAVEL -- Africa -- General. |
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City planning. |
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Sociology, Urban. |
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Travel. |
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Urbanization. |
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Egypt -- Cairo. |
| ISBN |
9781617975059 (electronic bk.) |
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1617975052 (electronic bk.) |
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9789774164040 |
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9774164040 |
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