Cairo Desert Cities Wolfgang Müller and a New York Times

and a New York Times bestseller

Organized into twelve months of impressions

Tommaso Pagnacco

surviving in the most obscure and surprising places

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Cairo Desert Cities Wolfgang Müller and a New York TimesSince the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed. Taking this permanent condition of emerging urban development at face value, the study aims to identify the as yet dormant