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Masakin al-Zilzal: an Unfinished City Masakin al-Zilzal: an Unfinished City
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How the Urbanites Settled in: Invention, Re-creation, and Use of Public Space How the Urbanites Settled in: Invention, Re-creation, and Use of Public Space
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Identifying with the Lost City Identifying with the Lost City
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New Norms, New Attitudes, and New Social Relations New Norms, New Attitudes, and New Social Relations
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Works Cited Works Cited
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Notes Notes
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10 Banished By the Quake Urban Cairenes Displaced From the Historic Center to the Desert Periphery
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Published:October 2009
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Abstract
This chapter explores what happens in the specific “moment” of the rupture of residential situations or their “precarious passage.” It reports the hypothesis that the relocated population, paradoxically, implemented strategies of adjustment and adaptation to overcome or at least reduce their uncertainty precisely because they were in a situation of uncertainty. Despite their status as peripheral, both geographically and politically, many relocated people transformed their urban spaces. The effects of displacement by the earthquake can be read on several levels. Because of the earthquake, moving from homes in the old town and Cairo's central neighborhoods to apartments in the new, peripheral desert cities implied an essential transformation for the victims' households. Despite the difficulties of settling down in Masakin al-Zilzal, an unfinished project far from the city center, those forced to relocate there demonstrated the ability to adjust to an entirely new situation extremely rapidly albeit with widely varying degrees of success.
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