Publication

2012 - American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, Egypt

Language

English

Word Count

86,750 words, Guess

Page Count

347 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC333.31/56
  • LCCHD7358.2.A3 A23 2012

Description

"Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatuses specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabitants define and exercise their legality in practice and daily routines. The ambition of the volume is to restore the continuum in the consolidation, building after building, of the popular neighborhoods of the cities under study, while demonstrating the closely-knit social relationships and other forms of community bonding"--Jacket.

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Other Editions

  • Popular housing and urban land tenure in the Middle East: case studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and TurkeyAmerican University in Cairo Press2012-01-01

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