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Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Dupret & Den Ababsa
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Description for Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ababsa, Myriam; Dupret, Baudouin; Denis, Eric. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 816.
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatus specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabitants define and exercise their legality in practice and daily routines. The ambition of ... Read more
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatus specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabitants define and exercise their legality in practice and daily routines. The ambition of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774165405
SKU
V9789774165405
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Ref
99-15
About Dupret & Den Ababsa
Myriam Ababsa is a research fellow in social geography at the French Institute for the Near East in Amman. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. Baudouin Dupret is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research, based in Paris, and a lecturer ... Read more
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