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Tourism --- cultural tourism --- Sociology of culture --- Heritage tourism. --- Tourisme culturel
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Cinematic Urbanism presents an urban history of modernity and postmodernity through the lens of cinema while arguing that urbanism cannot be understood outside the space of the celluloid city. Nezar AlSayyad traces the dissolution of the boundary between real and reel through time and space via a series of films that represent different modernities. He contrasts the "rational" European city of early twentieth-century industrial modernity as portrayed by Berlin: Symphony of a Big City (1927) with its American counterpart in Modern Times (1936). He illustrates the different forms of small town life and an urbanizing modernity across the Atlantic as exemplified by Cinema Paradiso (1989) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Using Metropolis (1927) and Brazil (1985), he shows how utopian ideals harbour within them their dystopian realities, while Jacques Tati's nostalgia for tradition in Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967) reveals a cynical modernity and a rebelling against its idealism.
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Architecture, Colonial. --- City planning --- European influences. --- History --- Architecture, Colonial --- Colonial architecture --- -European influences --- -Architecture, Colonial. --- Colonial revival (Architecture) --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- European influences --- Government policy --- Management
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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city's history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form.In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo's built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order-a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt's various rulers and regimes-from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond-have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.
Architecture --- Architecture and society --- City planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- History. --- Government policy --- Management --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Design and construction --- Cairo (Egypt) --- Kairo (Egypt) --- Kair (Egypt) --- Qāhirah (Egypt) --- Kahirah (Egypt) --- Caire (Egypt) --- Le Caire (Egypt) --- Ḳahir (Egypt) --- القاهرة (Egypt) --- al-Qāhirah (Egypt) --- القاهرة (مصر) --- al-Qāhirah (Miṣr) --- قاهرة (Egypt) --- O Caire (Egypt) --- Lo Cayiro (Egypt) --- Lo Quèro (Egypt) --- Каир (Egypt) --- Qahirä (Egypt) --- Горад Каір (Egypt) --- Horad Kair (Egypt) --- Каір (Egypt) --- Кайро (Egypt) --- El Caire (Egypt) --- Káhira (Egypt) --- Κάιρο (Egypt) --- El Cairo (Egypt) --- El Cairu (Egypt) --- Keiro (Egypt) --- Caireo (Egypt) --- O Cairo (Egypt) --- 카이로 (Egypt) --- Il Cairo (Egypt) --- קהיר (Egypt) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Architecture, Primitive --- Arquitectura --- Urbanisme --- Història --- Ciutats --- Ciutats models --- Gestió urbanística --- Millorament urbà --- Ordenació urbana --- Planejament urbà --- Planificació urbana --- Pobles --- Sòl, Ús urbà del --- Traçat de ciutats --- Urbanificació --- Urbanística --- Art públic --- Art urbà --- Ordenació del territori --- Política urbana --- Rehabilitació urbana --- Construcció --- Edificis --- Enginyeria --- Planificació --- Gestió
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Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter the book is divided into three parts. The three chapters in part I explore the inextricable link between 'tradition' and 'modern', revealing the geopolitical implications of this link. Part II looks at tradition as a process of invention a
Environmental planning --- Architecture --- Globalization --- Tradition (Philosophy) --- 316.623 --- 72.01 --- 72.036 --- Traditionalism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Tradities. Conventioneel gedrag --- Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- 72.036 Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- 316.623 Tradities. Conventioneel gedrag --- Globalization - Political aspects. --- Globalization - Social aspects. --- Tradition (Philosophy). --- Philosophy & Religion --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects.
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Architecture --- Architecture and society --- City planning --- History --- Cairo (Egypt) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Regional documentation --- History of Africa --- Cairo
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Philosophy --- Architecture --- architectuurfilosofie --- architectuurfilosofie
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Narrates the history of cities that appeared and disappeared on the banks of the river Nile over four millenniaIncludes descriptions of individual buildings, archaeological sites, urban areas and their historiesBrings a new perspective to a much studied history and geography of the Nile basinFocuses on urban space by anchoring specific events in cites along the NileAnalyses the interplay between the natural, cultural and economic aspects of the Nile basinBeautifully illustrated with 100 colour photographs and 14 colour mapsThe Nile, the world’s longest river system, has figured prominently in historic events over millennia. This book views the Nile as both the stage on which these events occurred and as an actor in its unfolding history. It explores the intersection of natural forces and human intervention to take readers on a series of historical journeys along the river, from its sources to the Mediterranean Sea. Each chapter focuses on a particular historical period and the cities, events, important figures and the encounters between groups and cultures that shaped it.
Cities and towns --- Nile River Valley --- Historical geography.
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