Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster? - Couverture souple

Sims, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9774168577 ISBN 13 : 9789774168574

Editeur : The American University in Cairo Press, 2018

Synopsis

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull tens of millions of people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valley into the desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures and ever-grander government pronouncements, have been meager at best, and today Egypt's desert is littered with stalled schemes, abandoned projects, and forlorn dreams. It also remains stubbornly uninhabited. Egypt's Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its kind to look at Egypt's desert development in its entirety. It recounts the failures of governmental schemes, analyzes why they have failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt's desert projects, as well as the underlying narratives and political necessities behind it, even in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that all is not lost, and that there are alternative paths that Egypt could take.

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À propos des auteurs

David Sims is an economist and urban planner who has been based in Egypt since 1974. As well as having worked in several Arab, Asian and African countries, he has led studies on urban development, industrial estates, tourism, and other aspects of Egypt's economic geography and spatial development. He is the author of Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City out of Control (AUC Press, 2010).

Timothy Mitchell is professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil andColonising Egypt, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9774168577
• ISBN 13: 9789774168574
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 486
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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