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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Understanding Cairo
• Author: David Sims
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388
• EAN: 9789774165535
• ISBN: 9774165535
• ID: 01231392
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Weight: 684 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 165 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2012

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