Cairo - Histories of a City

Informationen zum Autor Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History, and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed through time, offering a panorama unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of the city’s architecture and urban form. His narration illuminates how there can be “no one history of the city, but rather multiple, contested, and often invented histories.” Zusammenfassung Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed through time, offering a panorama unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of the city’s architecture and urban form. His narration illuminates how there can be “no one history of the city, but rather multiple, contested, and often invented histories.”

Product details

• Authors: Nezar AlSayyad, AlSayyad Nezar
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2013
• EAN: 9780674072459
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07245-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, Egypt, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Urban & municipal planning, History of Architecture, Middle Eastern history, Ancient Egypt, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt