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Title:

Discovering Downtown Cairo : architecture ... and stories / Vittoria Capresi, Barbara Pampe (eds.).

Publisher:

Jovis,

Copyright Date:

℗♭2015

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Subject:

Architecture--Cairo--Cairo--Guidebooks.
Cairo (Egypt)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Guidebooks.
Apartment houses--Cairo--Cairo--Designs and plans.
Central business districts--Cairo--Cairo--Guidebooks.

Other Authors:

Capresi, Vittoria, editor.
Pampe, Barbara, 1973- editor.

Notes:

Guide. Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached); front cover folds out to be a city map (24x47 cm). Copyright Summer School Downtown Cairo. Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-269).

Summary:

This scholarly guide presents a detailed survey of the plans and typologies of apartment buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in downtown Cairo. It also maps the changes in use of these spaces over time and shares some of the inhabitants' stories.

ISBN:

3868592962
9783868592962

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911019099

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)