Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)Making Cairo's Old Quarters: The Politics of (Re)Making Cairo's Old Quarters

ISBN-13: 9781138601680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 262 str.

Gehan Selim

Opis

This book examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of spatial representations that aimed to transform the urban realm in Cairo.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. Spatial Quality and the Remaking of Urban Experience in Cairo, 2. Reconfiguring Bulaq, 3. Resurgence Planning in Revolutionary Egypt - The Bulaq Scheme of 1966, 4. Shifting towards Liberalisation - The Bulaq Scheme of 1978, 5. Old versus New - Bulaq Abul Ela Scheme of 2005, 6. Institutions of Planning Development in Cairo, 7. Legislative Framework of Planning Control for Spatial Quality, 8. Revealing Quality in the Cairene Context - Local Voice, Conclusion - The Politics of Remaking Spatial Quality

O autorze

Gehan Selim is an architect and lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Sheffield, UK, and is a fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, UK.