Title & Author:

Cairo desert cities / edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER.

Publication:

Berlin : Ruby Press, [2018]
©2018

Description:

416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
At head of title: ETH Zurich, MAS Urban Design.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction. Cairo desert cities / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes; Demystifying vocabulary / MAS Urban Design; Cairo's new towns: From one revolution to another / Eric Denis -- 2. Cairo's desert cities: A chronology. Helwan; Heliopolis; Nasr City; Sixth of October; El-Obour; Fifteenth of May; Tenth of Ramadan; Al-Badr; New Cairo; Sheikh Zayed; Madinaty -- 3. Desert cities today. Living in Desert Cities / Eman Farouk, Rana el Rashidy, Ahmed El Melegy, Reem el Attar, and Aly el Shafei; Doing business in the desert: An interview with Mark Elkatsha (SODIC) -- 4. Mechanisms of desert cities. New city modus operandi / Christina Lazou, Sofia Symeonidou; Desert urbanization: The planning of neglect / Felipe Combeau, Guido Greco; Residential architecture of new towns / Ekkachan Eiamananwattana, Jide Haidar, Shinji Terada; Legislating the desert / Maro Tsagka, Caterina Viguera; Military Inc. / Georgios Kaldis, Olga Vougioukalaki; Programming the city / Yorgos Lavantsiotis, Kasha Pankowska -- 5. Alternative urban futures. 7 Projects for sixth of October; Ungated Community; In praise of shadows; Symbiosis; Urban Continuum; Dispelling Mirages; Graft; Urban Synergy -- 6. Reflecting on desert urbanization in Egypt. The new towns around Cairo / David Sims; Claiming the desert / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes; Infitah: A territorial opening / Marc Angélil, Cary Siress; Cairo's new administrative capital / Mirette Khorshed, Lawrence Vale, Khaled Tarabieh -- 7. Afterword / Mohamed Elshahed.

Summary:

Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert outside of Cairo. Intended to alleviate a growing demand for housing in the capital, most have never been completed. Edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, this book presents the first systematic exploration of these cities, analysing their architecture and urban form, along with their possibilities and shortcomings. Describing their condition as 'permanently emerging', the study identifies the towns' potential through a series of design scenarios which underscore the value of re-engaging with modernist town planning, in hopes that examining past failures uncovers future opportunities.

ISBN:

3944074238 (hardcover)
9783944074238 (hardcover)

Subject:

New towns Egypt Cairo.
City planning Egypt Cairo.
Villes nouvelles Égypte Le Caire.
City planning
New towns
Egypt Cairo

Added entries:

Angelil, Marc M., editor.
Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte, editor.
Something Fantastic (Firm), contributor.
CLUSTER, contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300399
Call No.: BIB 246580
Status: Available