Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemp...

A history of urban modernity in Cairo through cinema which"e;makes us see makes us see the mo...

During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed one of its most dramatic periods of transformation...

From the Grand Tour to today''s packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an expon...

AlSayyad and Massoumi's text addresses the ways in which religion can affect the city, and i...

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is tak...

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental...

From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifes...

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores ho...

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Na...

Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemp...

Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th century urbanism demonstrates a mov...