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The Formal City The Formal City
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The Informal City The Informal City
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The Peri-urban Frontier The Peri-urban Frontier
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Emergence of the Desert City Emergence of the Desert City
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Comparing the Three Cities Comparing the Three Cities
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Peering into Cairo's Future Peering into Cairo's Future
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3 A History of Modern Cairo: Three Cities in One
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Published:February 2011
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Sims, David,
'A History of Modern Cairo: Three Cities in One'
,Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control
(2011;
online edn,
Cairo Scholarship Online
, 22 Sept. 2011
), https://doi.org/10.5743/cairo/9789774164040.003.0004,accessed 21 Dec. 2022.
Abstract
This chapter examines the history of urban development in Cairo, Egypt, starting in 1950. It focuses on three distinct morphological phenomena or urban forms. These include the continuing growth of the formal city, the emergence and explosive expansion of the informal city and the crafting of the modern desert city beginning in the late 1970s. It also discusses a fourth form of urban development in Cairo called the peri-urban city. This development occurred on what was originally a rich agricultural plain dotted with villages and small towns, mostly west and north of Cairo proper.
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