A History of Modern Cairo: Three Cities in One

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

David Sims

Yayın yılı:

2011

Yayıncı:

American University in Cairo Press

This chapter examines the history of urban development in Cairo, Egypt, starting in 1950. It focuses on three distinct morphological phenomena or urban forms. These include the continuing growth of the formal city, the emergence and explosive expansion of the informal city and the crafting of the modern desert city beginning in the late 1970s. It also discusses a fourth form of urban development in Cairo called the peri-urban city. This development occurred on what was originally a rich agricultural plain dotted with villages and small towns, mostly west and north of Cairo proper.

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