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Book SynopsisMetropolises often evoke images of flashy high-rise buildings, permanent background noise, backed-up cars and people moving quickly in all directions in their masses. New York, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo. But what about Cairo?
Table of ContentsKerstin Pinther, Larissa Forster and Christian Hanussek - In Afropolis; Christian Hanussek and Salifou Lindou - Quel est l'endroit ideal?; Edgar Pieterse - Alternative City Futures; AbdouMaliq Simone - People as Infrastructure - Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg; On Informal Architectures - A Discussion between David Adjaye and Finn Williams; Regina Gockede - The Architect as a Colonial Technocrat of Dependent Modernisation - Ernst May's Plans for; Kampala; Karola Schlegelmilch - Architectures of Particularities - Photographs and a Discussion between Karola; Schlegelmilch and Christian Hanussek; Marie-Helene Gutberlet - Cities and Cinemas - Fragments of an African History of the Urban in Cinema and of; Cinema as an Urban Matter
