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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Cairo"”.
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Building in Cairo, building over Cairo
The section of the Medieval city of Cairo centered around Shari' AI Moe'iz which connects the Northern gate of Bab AI Futuh with the Southern gate Bab Zowayla, is now known as AI Gamaliya. From the time the city of Cairo was laid-out, in 969 A.D. to the arrival of European colonialism with the …
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Economy and beliefs among the Cairo poor
… poor community in a residential slum quarter of Cairo. Both objective and subjective aspects of the poor’s everyday life were studied with a view to giving a rounded picture of their life-world, life-style, problems, coping responses and the social construction of their reality. In the process, …
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English Theatre in Cairo, Egypt: Dialogue and Resistance
While Cairo remains an uncontested center of Arabic culture, arts, and language, Cairene theatre companies routinely produce performances in English, drawing attention to (1) the post-colonial role of the English language in Egypt, with a particular emphasis on the colonial history of the country, …
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Urbanization of agricultural land : informal settlements in Cairo
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981.
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Adaptation of CAIRO meeting environment toward military collaboration efforts
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Development of construction techniques in the Mamluk domes of Cairo
… and structural changes of the Mamluk Mausolea in Cairo (1250-1517 A.D.); a special attention is dedicated to the domes that cover all the Mausolea and that represent an example of high expertise in Mediaeval architecture. This works document several stages of their construction from the Mausoleum …
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Ordering the land : urban metaphors for a park in Cairo
… park on the eastern edge of the Old City in Cairo. Precedents in park design are briefly explored with a focus on the relation of the park to the city. The urban fabric of the Old City is analyzed in detail to extract metaphors, models and principles that can serve to devise an ordering …
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Form and territory : a comparison between four areas in Cairo
… in four different built environments in Cairo. This is achieved by the application of three methods of analysis (form analysis, quantification ion so form as analyzed, territorial analysis) to the four areas. The areas chosen represent four different built environments in Cairo a …
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In-use modification of existing public housing in Cairo, Egypt
… case study, of a public housing project in Cairo, chosen as a prototypical example of post-occupancy and post-construction evaluation. Part III advocates an alternative design approach to remedy the existing situation by introducing some degree of flexibility/variability. This was provided …
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The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341 : reconstructing architecture from texts
… the Citadel of the Mountain (QaI'at aI-Jabal) in Cairo. It traces its development from its inception in 1176 under Salah aI-Din al-Ayyubi until it reached its definitive and most monumental form under aI-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341, with two interruptions). The dissertation focuses on the part of …
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Streets of Islamic Cairo : a configuration of urban themes and patterns
… development of three major streets in Medieval Cairo within the overall structure of the city at the end of each ruling dynasty. The hypothesis presented in this study is that streets in a Muslim city (Cairo) possessed some common themes and patterns that created for them a characteristic …
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An interorganizational analysis of urban transportation project development in Cairo, Egypt.
Thesis. 1978. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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The Rab' in Cairo : a window on Mamluk architecture and urbanism
… of Mamluk architecture and urbanism in Cairo, based on a detailed study of one of the more important elements in its urban fabric, the rab' or apartment building. This building type is investigated via its extant examples and the extensive archival collection from the Fatimid, Ayyubid …
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Accessibility impact analysis of new public transit projects in Cairo, Egypt
The New Urban Communities (NUC), built around Cairo, developed to relieve congestion and pull away residents from the crowded core, have not successfully attracted a significant number of residents. Since NUCs are not well connected by official public transport to the inner city, their residents …
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Cairo Contracted: Investigating the ᶜAshwā’iyyāt (Informal Settlements) through the Dynamics of Construction
Cairo is an exploding megacity that is widely portrayed through stark political, economic, and urban challenges. One of its most prominent characteristics is the prevalence of its so-called informal settlements, the ‘Ashwā'iyyāt, which accommodate a staggering 70 percent of Cairenes, and are in …
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Investigating and applying traditional urbanism principles to design a residential neighbourhood in Cairo
… and sustainable way of living.Therefore Fatimid Cairo, as an example of traditional urbanism of the region was studied and analyzed with the intention of interpreting emerging principles in a way relevant to the contemporary urban context.The research expanded to analyze other more contemporary …
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The Social Lives of Vacant Homes: Tracing Registers of Value in Contemporary Cairo
… landscapes of housing vacancy in contemporary Cairo to reveal the plural regimes of value underlying city-making. Set against a dominant tradition of viewing vacant cityscapes as being commodified by capitalist reforms, the study offers original insight by tracing the social lives of vacant …
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A Codicological and Linguistic Typology of Common Torah Codices from the Cairo Genizah
… a typology of common Torah codices from the Cairo Genizah. As many of these codices have a non-standard form of Tiberian vocalisation (NST) the thesis also develops a typology of this vocalisation present in the corpus. These codices lack the full features associated with exemplary Bibles …
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