TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ghannam,Farha
TI  - Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo 
SN  - 9780520230460 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HT 384 G411r 2002
U1  - 307.76/0962/16 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - Urbanización
KW  - El Cairo (Egipto)
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Ciudades y pueblos
KW  - Cairo (Egypt)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Condiciones sociales
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Condiciones económicas
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-206) and index; Relocation and the creation of a global city -- Relocation and the daily use of "modern" spaces -- Old places, new identities --  Gender and the struggle over public spaces -- Religion in a global era -- Roads to prosperity; A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
N2  - In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital, the Egyptian government relocated residents to public housing on the outskirts of the city. This study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the population in the location
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