Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul 9781478027386

A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt 9780804782661

This book offers a reinterpretation of an important popular uprising in Cairo in 1952 by looking at the patterns of comm

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The great urban transformation: politics of land and property in China 9780199568048, 9780199644599

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Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo 9781400851768

Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concre

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Making Markets Making Place: Geography, Topo/graphy and the Reproduction of an Urban Marketplace 3030728641, 9783030728649

This book examines place and place-making in London’s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (‘place-writing

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Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo 9780520936010

In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve

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Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo 9780822387138

A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neolibe

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Making Space : Property Development and Urban Planning 9781444144673, 9780340808269

Making Space studies the built environment by examining the private-sector forces responsible for its development and th

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Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era 9780804786577

Through an examination of the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicine in Central America, this book considers whe

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Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d'Etat, and Memory in Turkey 9780520974678

Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader pr

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Markets, Politics, and Change in the Global Political Economy 9781685851422

Concentrating on change as it affects societies on the periphery of the world system, the authors address forces both in

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