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Egypt's Desert Dreams

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Egypt's Desert Dreams

By David Sims

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About the book

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 b...Show more

City and town planning: architectural aspects

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ISBN

9789774166686

Publisher

The American University in Cairo Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Egypt's Desert Dreams

Format

Hardcover

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