{"product_id":"understanding-cairo-9781617973888","title":"Understanding Cairo","description":"This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are portrayed and mapped: the huge, spontaneous neighborhoods; housing; traffic and transport; city government; and its people and their enterprises.\nThe book argues that understanding a city such as Cairo is not a daunting task as long as pre-conceived notions are discarded and care is taken to apprehend available information and to assess it with a critical eye. In the case of Cairo, this approach leads to a conclusion that the city can be considered a kind of success story, in spite of everything.","brand":"David Sims","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49281950089467,"sku":"9781617973888","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_aecfd726-1e97-46db-8a51-cded6c0f2989.jpg?v=1788894998","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/understanding-cairo-9781617973888","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}