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1 Urban Governance as Multi-scale Relations 1. - Theoretical Framework 2. - Research Methodology and Sources of Data 5. - The Research Locale 8. - Significance of the Study 10. - 2 Nasser's Agro-politan Planning 11. - Capitalist Spatial Development and Egypt's Dependent Urban System 12. - Structural Predicaments of the 1950s and 1960s 15. - State-controlled Planning for Growth 18. - Nasser's Planning Industry: State Technocracy 20. - Planning Institutions 22. - Conclusion 30. - 3 The 'Open Door' Building and Construction Era 35. - October Working Paper 35. - From Public Utility to Flexible Planning 37. - Hollowing Out the Professional Ethos 42. - Planning Vehicles 43. - Unintended Consequences of Opening the Door 50. - Conclusion 52. - 4 Wathiqat Misr for the Twenty-first Century 55'. - Structures and Relations of the New Settlements Program 56. - Wathiqat Misr and the 'Controversies over the New Settlements Program 60. - The Interstices between Policies and Planning 64. - 5 The Millennium Pharaohs of Sixth of October 71. - The Initial Concept 71. - Planning Sixth of October 74. - Main Features of the General Plan 76. - The Governing Structure 81. - City Morphology 93. - Images of Sixth of October 96. - The Second Largest Governorate 98. - Conclusion 100

In Egypt, becoming a civic state that provides its citizens' demands for "Bread, Freedom, Social Justice and Human Dignity" is a protracted process. a process that depends on many factors and actors. The nature of this process, whether democratic or otherwise, is a function of multiple forces and interests of local, national, regional and international scales. This study is an attempt to analyze and explain this process.

The book provides a revealing analysis of key areas of Egyptian political economy, such as labour, urbanization and the creation of slums, disability, refugees, street children, and agrarian livelihoods, reaching the impactful conclusion that marginalization does not mean total exclusion

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities. This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, political-economic and lived perspectives. With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book is an essential provocation to re-evaluate urban theory, politics, and practice and better account for the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Timeline of the Global Protests, 2010-13 -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: the Arab Spring Uprisings and their Aftermaths -- 2. Teargas, Flags and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global -- 3. Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution -- 4. 'I Dreamed of Being a People': Egypt's Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination -- 5. The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution -- 6. Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen's 'Change Revolution' -- Part Two: Beyond the Arab Spring - Asia and Africa -- 7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest -- 8. Gandhi, Camera, Action! India's 'August Spring' -- 9. Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martyrdom in Indian Anti-corruption Activism -- 10. 'The Mother of all Strikes': Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011 -- Part Three: Beyond the Arab Spring - American and European Protests -- 11. Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labour Rallies -- 12. Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility -- 13. Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London -- 14. Spain's Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Non-violence -- 15 The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-austerity Protest and Accountability -- About the Contributors -- Web Sources for Figures -- Index