Egypt's Desert Dreams
Development or Disaster?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19972030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Sims (0000-0001-5038-0855), David W Sims (0000-0002-0916-7363), Timothy J Mitchell (0000-0002-8309-5556), Timothy Mitchell |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 401 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Egypt's Desert Dreams (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | American University in Cairo Press (PUBLISHER • EG) |
| DOI | 10.5743/cairo/9789774166686.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4243082915 |
| Open Library | OL35514490M |
| ISBN | 9789774166686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt, and to pull tens of millions of people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valley into the desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures and ever-grander government pronouncements, have been meager at best, and today, Egypt's desert is littered with stalled schemes, abandoned projects, and forlorn dreams. It also remains stubbornly uninhabited. Egypt's Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its kind to look at Egypt's desert development in its entirety. It recounts the failures of governmental schemes, analyzes why they have failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt's desert projects, as well as the underlying narratives and political necessities behind it, even in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that all is not lost, and that there are alternative paths that Egypt could take
Ancient egypt · Ancient history · Archaeology · Desert (philosophy) · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Tourism · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · City planning · Desert ecology · Desert resources development · Deserts · Economic conditions · Economic development · Egypt · Government policy · Land subdivision · Land use · law and legislation · Public lands · Real estate development · Regional planning · Urbanization
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Neoliberal Urbanism and Authoritarian Rule Consolidation
Rethinking Egypt’s ‘Failed’ Desert Cities
Two wheels and two wings
Plastics and Agriculture in the Desert Frontier
Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making
Land and small farmer resistance in authoritarian Egypt
L’officier de police, le checkpoint et l’interrogatoire
Smell-waking as a cognitive mapping tool
The Violence of Memory and Movement
Haphazard urbanisation
Environment and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
L'espace des panneaux publicitaires en Égypte
Building 'Community' and Markets in Contemporary Cairo
Urbanism as Craft
Seeing Like a City-State
The politics of public land dispossession in Egypt
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |