{"product_id":"9781617973888","title":"Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control","description":"This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city’s eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are portrayed and mapped: the huge, spontaneous neighborhoods; housing; traffic and transport; city government; and its people and their enterprises.  The book argues that understanding a city such as Cairo is not a daunting task as long as pre-conceived notions are discarded and care is taken to apprehend available information and to assess it with a critical eye. In the case of Cairo, this approach leads to a conclusion that the city can be considered a kind of success story, in spite of everything.","brand":"American University in Cairo Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134343037168,"sku":"9781617973888","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617973888_p0.jpg?v=1763854447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617973888","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}