Title & Author:

Housing Cairo - the informal response / edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes ; in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER.

Publication:

Berlin : Ruby Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Notes:
On title page, the word "informal" has a line through it.
"The content of this publication was realized by students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at ETH Zurich."--Page 304.
Includes 5 pages of Arabic translation of two contributions by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes.
Illustrated lining papers.
At head of title: ETH Zurich, MAS [Master of Advanced Studies] Urban Design.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-297).
Housing Ciaro : the informal response / Charlotte otte Malterre-Barthes -- Built informality in Cairo : an anti-glossary -- Desert cpital / Greg Dimitriadis, Dionysia Kouniaki -- "Affordable houses" / Bernardo M. Falcão, Patrick Abou Khalil -- Delusional Cairo / Alice Merche, Stamatina Lamprou -- Sub-dividing Egypt / Ameya Joshi, Francesco Tonarelli -- A new vernacular / Maria Kouvari, Heechul Jung -- Snapshots of construction / Daniel Ostrowski, Katharina Zerlauth -- On the intelligence of informal construction / Christine Fischer, Shinji Terada -- War on informatlity / Zoi Alexandropoulou, Marilena Fotopoulou -- Just another neighborhood -- A story of construction / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes -- Five typologies -- Seven urban design projects for Ard El-Lewa -- Inside out / Grigorios Dimitriadis, Bernado Menezes Falcão, Shinji Terada -- Urban seeds / Christine Fisher, Maria Eleni Fotopoulou, Katharina Zerlauth -- A gift / Maria Kouvari, Elisavet Papadopoulou -- The brick, the house, the neighborhood / Zoi Alexandropoulou, Foteini Vitou, Dimitra Zarri -- Solidary city / Dionysia Kouniaki, Alice Merche -- Species of spaces / Ameya Joshi, Stamatina Lamprou, Francesco Tonnarelli -- The right to urbanity / Patrick Abou Khalil, Heechul Jung, Daniel Ostrowski -- An introduction to informal housing in Cairo / Sarah Sabry -- The danger of romanticizing informality / Cluster Cairo -- Receding rurality / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes -- Form follows food / Marc Angélil, Cary Siress -- Informality : prescriptive measures? / David Sims -- Afterword : The informal response / Mohamed Elshahed -- Arabic translations: a story of construction.
Text in English, with some text in Arabic.

Summary:

"Home to 20 million people and still growing, Greater Cairo mirrors the global phenomenon of unplanned urban growth. Approximately 60 percent of the population of Africa's biggest city lives in so-called informal housing, typically five-to-ten-story concrete-and-brick-infill structures built without permits in the desert or on former agricultural land. Housing Cairo: The Informal Response illuminates the architecture of informality and its mechanisms of production through a series of theoretical essays and architectural design proposals. Central to the project is a re-examination of the concept of "informality" itself and its often negative connotations. As the book argues, Cairo's informal response to housing needs is not a marginal phenomenon, but rather an intelligent, optimized answer to planning incapacities - an answer that architects and planners should themselves be participating in."- -Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783944074177 (hbk.)
3944074173 (hbk.)

Subject:

al- Markaz al-ʿArabī li-d-Dirāsāt Kairo
Housing Egypt Cairo.
Tenement houses Egypt Cairo.
Low-income housing Egypt Cairo.
Squatter settlements Egypt Cairo.
Pauvres Logement Égypte Le Caire.
Bidonvilles Égypte Le Caire.
Housing.
Low-income housing.
Social conditions.
Squatter settlements.
Tenement houses.
Urbanität
Architektur
Wohnen
Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions.
Egypt Cairo.

Added entries:

Angelil, Marc M., editor.
Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte, editor.
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, issuing body.
Something Fantastic (Firm), contributor.
CLUSTER, contributor.

Housing Cairo - the response

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294168
Call No.: BIB 239535
Status: Available