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13 December 2006 13 December 2006
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30 January 2008 30 January 2008
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16 March 2008 16 March 2008
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20 April 2008 20 April 2008
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10 June 2008 10 June 2008
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27 July 2008 27 July 2008
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January 2009 January 2009
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Historic Cairo: A Formal History Historic Cairo: A Formal History
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Conservation and Planning: One City and Parallel Histories Conservation and Planning: One City and Parallel Histories
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The Socioeconomic Dimension The Socioeconomic Dimension
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Governance as a Missing Element Governance as a Missing Element
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Power of the People Power of the People
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Works Cited Works Cited
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Notes Notes
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8 Extract from Diary Marginal Notes on the Soft Dialectics of Historic Cairo
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Published:October 2009
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Abstract
This chapter examines some of the paradoxes, turf battles, opaque government policies, and weak governance through the saga of one nineteenth-century building in al-Darb al-Ahmar, as one of its tenants tries to save the building from the owner's bureaucratic and legal strategy to demolish it and build a new commercial building in its place. It explains the formal history of Cairo. It also addresses the socioeconomic dimension and governance as a missing element. The tale of 5, al-Qirabiya is similar to other dramas that take place on a daily basis in thousands of other buildings in Cairo. Despite the conflict between planning and conservation practices and theories, where Historic Cairo was a battlefield for this conflict, these two concepts, despite their contradictions, agreed on one thing. Planning and conservation came to a silent agreement to ignore and neglect “ordinary” buildings along with their occupants, even though they constitute the urban fabric of the cities.
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