Cairo Desert Cities Wolfgang Müller Klug und provokant

Klug und provokant

Organized into twelve months of impressions

Olivia Block

‘Any scientist who is no mystic is no scientist

Tommaso Pagnacco

Cairo Desert Cities Wolfgang Müller Klug und provokantSince the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging urban development at face value, the study aims to identify the as yet dormant