Cairo Desert Cities Wolfgang Müller Tommaso Pagnacco

Tommaso Pagnacco

‘Any scientist who is no mystic is no scientist

and more…

surviving in the most obscure and surprising places

Klug und provokant

Cairo Desert Cities Wolfgang Müller Tommaso PagnaccoSince the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging urban development at face value, the study aims to identify the as yet dormant