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Planning Egypt's new settlements : the politics of spatial inequities = Takhṭīṭ al-mudun al-jadīdah fī Miṣr : siyāsāt al-tabāyun al-makānī /
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This study critically analyzes the paradigms and practices of planning in Egypt since 1952. It interrogates the politics of national and physical planning while tracing the ideas that informed the establishment of new settlements in the country across the regimes of Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. Based on primary and secondary data, the study argues that under Nasser, plans often diverged from their blueprints and revealed the myth of 'technical objectivity' that underpinned the planning industry. It outlines the program of new settlements under Sadat and unveils the systematic exclusion of planners from decision-making apparatuses while institutionalizing 'profit-opportunism' in favor of private interests. The study then demonstrates the decline of planning under Mubarak and its emergence into a 'special purpose vehicle' in service of real estate developments associated with neoliberal shifts of the economy and skewed toward resource and privilege concentration in the hands of a few, thus further exacerbating uneven spatial morphologies.
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iii, 116 pages : maps ; 22 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-108). :
9789774165344
Politics, patronage, and the transmission of knowledge in 13th-15th century Tabriz /
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In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz , an international group of specialists from different disciplines investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning, cultural productivity, and politics in post-Mongol Iran and the Middle East. While standard accounts of Islamicate history have long presented the 13th to 15th centuries as the bottom of the decline paradigm of old, the present volume demonstrates the vibrancy and originality of the intellectual and cultural production of this period by focusing on Tabriz among other capitals of the region. The volume particularly explores the transmission of knowledge and institutional and cultural patronage in the post-Mongol period. Contributors include Reuven Amitai , Nourane Ben Azzouna , Sheila Blair , Devin DeWeese , Joachim Gierlichs , Birgitt Hoffmann , Domenico Ingenito , Robert Morrison , Ertuğrul Ökten , Judith Pfeiffer , Johannes Preiser-Kapeller , F. Jamil Ragep , and Patrick Wing .
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004262577 :
1569-7401 ;
Beyond the Post-Colonial Gaze: Recognizing Pachamama /
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Landscapes are the skin of the Earth: they reflect the environmental and cultural well-being of human communities, especially in an age of climate crisis. Focusing on Peru's Huancavelica region, Beyond the Post-Colonial Gaze affirms the philosophical value of Andean cosmovision, challenging dominant aesthetic paradigms shaped by tourism and media. The book advances an original onto-phenomenological theory of landscape, bridging prevailing spatial models with insights from diverse disciplines in a transdisciplinary and innovative framework.
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1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004749825