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

The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo''s Old Quarters 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. Adopting an interdisciplinary...