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This is a new companion publication to the landmark volume "Cairo Cosmopolitan". This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the 'march to the modern and the global' as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to "Cairo Cosmopolitan" (2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Regional & area planning Urban & municipal planning

• Full title: Cairo Contested
• Subtitle: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
• Author: Diane Singerman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 544
• EAN: 9789774162886
• ISBN: 9774162889
• ID: 05063007
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Weight: 1086 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 241 × 44 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2009

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