Author: Egypt
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Housing and Community Upgrading for Low Income Egyptians
Author: Egypt
Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Housing and Community Upgrading for Low-income Egyptians
Author: Joint Housing and Community Upgrading Team
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Egypt's Housing Crisis
Author: Yahia Shawkat
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030339
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A provocative analysis of the roots of Egypt’s housing crisis and the ways in which it can be tackled Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass a ruler. Housing is political. Almost every Egyptian ruler over the last eighty years has directly associated himself with at least one large-scale housing project. It is also big business, with Egypt currently the world leader in per capita housing production, building at almost double China’s rate, and creating a housing surplus that counts in the millions of units. Despite this, Egypt has been in the grip of a housing crisis for almost eight decades. From the 1940s onward, officials deployed a number of policies to create adequate housing for the country’s growing population. By the 1970s, housing production had outstripped population growth, but today half of Egypt’s one hundred million people cannot afford a decent home. Egypt's Housing Crisis takes presidential speeches, parliamentary reports, legislation, and official statistics as the basis with which to investigate the tools that officials have used to ‘solve’ the housing crisis—rent control, social housing, and amnesties for informal self-building—as well as the inescapable reality of these policies’ outcomes. Yahia Shawkat argues that wars, mass displacement, and rural–urban migration played a part in creating the problem early on, but that neoliberal deregulation, crony capitalism and corruption, and neglectful planning have made things steadily worse ever since. In the final analysis he asks, is affordable housing for all really that hard to achieve?
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030339
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A provocative analysis of the roots of Egypt’s housing crisis and the ways in which it can be tackled Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass a ruler. Housing is political. Almost every Egyptian ruler over the last eighty years has directly associated himself with at least one large-scale housing project. It is also big business, with Egypt currently the world leader in per capita housing production, building at almost double China’s rate, and creating a housing surplus that counts in the millions of units. Despite this, Egypt has been in the grip of a housing crisis for almost eight decades. From the 1940s onward, officials deployed a number of policies to create adequate housing for the country’s growing population. By the 1970s, housing production had outstripped population growth, but today half of Egypt’s one hundred million people cannot afford a decent home. Egypt's Housing Crisis takes presidential speeches, parliamentary reports, legislation, and official statistics as the basis with which to investigate the tools that officials have used to ‘solve’ the housing crisis—rent control, social housing, and amnesties for informal self-building—as well as the inescapable reality of these policies’ outcomes. Yahia Shawkat argues that wars, mass displacement, and rural–urban migration played a part in creating the problem early on, but that neoliberal deregulation, crony capitalism and corruption, and neglectful planning have made things steadily worse ever since. In the final analysis he asks, is affordable housing for all really that hard to achieve?
The Housing and Construction Industry in Egypt
Author: Technology Adaptation Program (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Publisher:
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Treaties and Other International Acts Series
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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A.I.D. Research and Development Abstracts
Author:
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
What Happened to Participation? Urban Development and Authoritarian Upgrading in Cairo's Informal Neighbourhoods
Author: Elena Piffero
Publisher: Odoya srl
ISBN: 8896026180
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Odoya srl
ISBN: 8896026180
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
United States Economic Assistance to Egypt and Sudan
Author:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Cairo Contested
Author: Diane Singerman
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617973890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the "march to the modern and the global" as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617973890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the "march to the modern and the global" as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.