Format:
XII, 214 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
0520230450
,
0520230469
Content:
In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downtown Cairo to public housing on the outskirts of the city. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork among five thousand working-class families in the neighborhood of al-Zawyia al-Hamra, this study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the population in the new location.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Kairo
;
Weltstadt
;
Kairo
;
Soziale Wirklichkeit
;
Kairo
;
Stadtentwicklung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001006438.html
