Planning Egypt's New Settlements - The Politics of Spatial Inequities

Informationen zum Autor Dalia Wahdan is assistant professor at the School of Liberal Education, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, in Pune, India. Klappentext This study critically analyzes the paradigms and practices of planning in Egypt since 1952. Based on primary and secondary data, the study argues that under Nasser, plans often diverged from their blueprints and revealed the myth of 'technical objectivity' that underpinned the planning industry. Under Sadat, the systematic exclusion of planners from decision-making apparatuses accompanied 'profit-opportunism' in favor of private interests. The study then demonstrates the decline of planning under Mubarak and its emergence into a 'special purpose vehicle' in service of real estate developments skewed toward resource and privilege concentration in the hands of a few thus further exacerbating uneven spatial morphologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Urban Governance as Multi-scale Relations Abdel Nasser’s Agro-politan Planning The ‘Open Door’ Building and Construction Era Wathiqat Misr for the Twenty-first Century The Millennium Pharaohs of Sitta October

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dalia Wahdan
• Editore: American university pr cairo
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.07.2012
• EAN: 9789774165344
• ISBN: 978-977-416-534-4
• Pagine: 112
• Serie: Cairo Papers in Social Science; Cairo Papers in Social Science
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura