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Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

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  • Safa H. Ashoub

    (Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation, TU Berlin, Germany)

  • Mohamed W. Elkhateeb

    (Independent Researcher, Germany)

Abstract

This article builds on theoretical foundations from enclave urbanism, authoritarian planning and neoliberal urbanisation to explore contemporary socio-spatial transformation(s) happening in Cairo, Egypt. Relying on a nationwide road development project, inner-city neighbourhoods in Cairo are turning into urban enclaves, whereby populations are being separated by a multiplicity of transport-related infrastructure projects. As these rapid planning processes are occurring, our article aims to explain why these developments are crucial and unique in the context of the post-Arab Spring cities. We argue that the new road infrastructure is creating a spatially and socially fragmented city and transforming the urban citizenry into a controllable and navigable body. We use an inductive approach to investigate the effects of the new road infrastructure and its hegemonic outcomes on the city. On a conceptual level, we propose that the enclaving of the city is a containment method that has erupted since the mass mobilisations of the Arab Spring. In doing so, we use qualitative analysis to explain empirical evidence showing how the city is being transformed into nodes of enclaves, where communities are getting separated from one another via socio-spatial fault lines.

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  • Safa H. Ashoub & Mohamed W. Elkhateeb, 2021. "Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(2), pages 202-217.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v:6:y:2021:i:2:p:202-217
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    1. Austin Dziwornu Ablo & Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, 2022. "A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(3), pages 370-386, May.

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