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Product Description: 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 cityâs history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form...read more
Hardcover:
9780674047860 | Belknap Pr, May 2, 2011, cover price $29.95
Paperback:
9780674072459 | Belknap Pr, May 13, 2013, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: Traditions: The âRealâ, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment is a continuation of Nezar AlSayyadâs engagement with the subject of tradition in the built environment. In it he attempts to unsettle the belief that tradition is simply a product of history and transmission...read more
Hardcover:
9780415777728, titled "Traditions: The âRealâ, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment" | Routledge, May 1, 2014, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Traditions: The âRealâ, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment is a continuation of Nezar AlSayyadâs engagement with the subject of tradition in the built environment.
Paperback:
9780415777735 | Routledge, April 30, 2014, cover price $59.95
The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It attempts to establish a relationship between two important phenomena: the historic transition of the majority of the worldâs population from a rural to an urban existence; and the robust resurgence of religion as a major force in the shaping of contemporary life in many parts of the world. Employing a transnational interrogation anchored in specific geographic regions, the contributors to this volume explore the intellectual and practical challenges posed by fundamentalist groups, movements, and organizations. They focus on how certain ultra religious practices of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism have contributed to the remaking of global urban space. Their work suggests that it is a grave oversimplification to view religious orthodoxies or doctrines as the main cause of urban terrorism or violence. Instead they argue that such phenomena should be understood as a particular manifestation of modernityâs struggles. Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumiâs book provides fascinating reading for those interested in religion and the city, with thought provoking pieces from experts in anthropology, geography sociology, religious studies, and urban studies.
Hardcover:
9780415779357, titled "The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space" | Routledge, September 1, 2010, cover price $180.00 | also contains The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space
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9780415779364, titled "The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space" | Routledge, August 27, 2010, cover price $59.95 | also contains The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space | About this edition: The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.
The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It attempts to establish a relationship between two important phenomena: the historic transition of the majority of the worldâs population from a rural to an urban existence; and the robust resurgence of religion as a major force in the shaping of contemporary life in many parts of the world. Employing a transnational interrogation anchored in specific geographic regions, the contributors to this volume explore the intellectual and practical challenges posed by fundamentalist groups, movements, and organizations. They focus on how certain ultra religious practices of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism have contributed to the remaking of global urban space. Their work suggests that it is a grave oversimplification to view religious orthodoxies or doctrines as the main cause of urban terrorism or violence. Instead they argue that such phenomena should be understood as a particular manifestation of modernityâs struggles. Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumiâs book provides fascinating reading for those interested in religion and the city, with thought provoking pieces from experts in anthropology, geography sociology, religious studies, and urban studies.
Hardcover:
9780415779357 | Routledge, September 1, 2010, cover price $180.00 | also contains The Fundamentalist City: Religion and Urbanism in the New Global Order
Paperback:
9780415779364 | Routledge, August 27, 2010, cover price $59.95 | also contains The Fundamentalist City: Religion and Urbanism in the New Global Order | About this edition: The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.
Product Description: The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic portrayals. We have seen the landmarks of New York, London and Tokyo turn into iconic symbols of wealth, power, status, style and culture, and for the majority of people the images and sounds of movies form the only experience they will ever have of distant cities...read more
Hardcover:
9780415700481 | Routledge, August 1, 2006, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic portrayals.
Paperback:
9780415700498 | Routledge, August 1, 2006, cover price $73.95
Product Description: During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being...read more
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9780739109151 | Lexington Books, April 30, 2005, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation.
Paperback:
9780739109168 | Lexington Books, May 30, 2005, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation.
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 and here the three chapters are all concerned with the making of landscapes and landscape myths, showing how the spectacle of history can be aestheticized and naturalized. Finally, Part III shows how traditionis a regime, programmed and policed and how it has been deployed, resisted, and reworked through hegemonic struggles that seek to create both built environments and citizen-subjects.
Hardcover:
9780415290401 | Routledge, February 1, 2004, cover price $180.00
Paperback:
9780415290418 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $78.95 | About this edition: 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.
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant zone of transactions for the middle-class and even transnational elites. Indeed, the book presents a rich view of 'urban informality' as a system of regulations and norms that governs the use of space and makes possible new forms of social and political power. The book is organized as a 'transnational' endeavor. It brings together three regional domains of researchâthe Middle East, Latin America, and South Asiaâthat are rarely in conversation with one another. It also unsettles the hierarchy of development and underdevelopment by looking at some First World processes of informality through a Third World research lens.
Hardcover:
9780739107409 | Lexington Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization.
Paperback:
9780739107416 | Lexington Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $39.99
Product Description: Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens...read more
Hardcover:
9780739103388 | Lexington Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam.
Product Description: Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th century urbanism demonstrates a movement toward cultural differentiation. Such factors as ethnicity and religious and cultural heritages have led to the concept of hybridity as a shaper of identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780275966126 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2001, cover price $138.00 | About this edition: Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th century urbanism demonstrates a movement toward cultural differentiation.
Product Description: From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780415239417 | Routledge, December 1, 2000, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet.
Product Description: Examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience...read more
Hardcover:
9781856282369 | Avebury, August 1, 1992, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: Examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.
Product Description: The history of the Islamic world includes many unique cultural, religious, scientific, and architectural developments. Among these was the evolution of the Arab Muslim city, which occurred during the rapid expansion of the Muslim empire in the seventh and eighth centuries A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780313277917 | Praeger Pub Text, May 30, 1991, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: The history of the Islamic world includes many unique cultural, religious, scientific, and architectural developments.
Paperback:
9780819175243 | Univ Pr of Amer, May 1, 1990, cover price $59.50
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