Gehan Selim is an architect and lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Sheffield, UK, and is a fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, UK.

'In Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re) making Cairo’s Old Quarters, Gehan Selim presents to us a thorough study of Bulaq, an old neighborhood in the City. In it, she employs the different types of planning produced under the Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak regimes to illustrate how the shifts in their forms of governance resulted in different forms of urbanism.' - Nezar AlSayyad, Professor of Architecture and Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA'Unfinished Places is a commanding discourse on urbanism and politics in one of the most important cities in the world. Representing a distinct yet elegiac interdisciplinary approach, Selim’s emphasis on the past and its impact on our future is a timely tour de force.' - Beverley Milton-Edwards, Convenor for MA Violence, Terrorism and Security, Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland'Cairo's long history is one of extraordinary richness, yet the experience of urban life for its citizens is largely hidden. Recent events have illustrated how the city's public realm has the potential to reflect the authentic voice of its population in a frame created by its elite. Unfinished Places is a detailed study of the Bulaq district of Cairo which subverts many of the assumptions about Arab cities and provides an exemplary template through which the exploration of world urbanism might be pursued in the future.' - Eamonn Canniffe, Principal Lecturer, Manchester School of Art, UK

• Introduction, 1. Spatial Quality and the Remaking of Urban Experience in Cairo, 2. Reconfiguring Bulaq, 3. Resurgence Planning in Revolutionary Egypt - The Bulaq Scheme of 1966, 4. Shifting towards Liberalisation - The Bulaq Scheme of 1978, 5. Old versus New - Bulaq Abul Ela Scheme of 2005, 6. Institutions of Planning Development in Cairo, 7. Legislative Framework of Planning Control for Spatial Quality, 8. Revealing Quality in the Cairene Context - Local Voice, Conclusion - The Politics of Remaking Spatial Quality

Gehan Selim is an architect and lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Sheffield, UK, and is a fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, UK.

'In Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re) making Cairo’s Old Quarters, Gehan Selim presents to us a thorough study of Bulaq, an old neighborhood in the City. In it, she employs the different types of planning produced under the Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak regimes to illustrate how the shifts in their forms of governance resulted in different forms of urbanism.' - Nezar AlSayyad, Professor of Architecture and Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA'Unfinished Places is a commanding discourse on urbanism and politics in one of the most important cities in the world. Representing a distinct yet elegiac interdisciplinary approach, Selim’s emphasis on the past and its impact on our future is a timely tour de force.' - Beverley Milton-Edwards, Convenor for MA Violence, Terrorism and Security, Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland'Cairo's long history is one of extraordinary richness, yet the experience of urban life for its citizens is largely hidden. Recent events have illustrated how the city's public realm has the potential to reflect the authentic voice of its population in a frame created by its elite. Unfinished Places is a detailed study of the Bulaq district of Cairo which subverts many of the assumptions about Arab cities and provides an exemplary template through which the exploration of world urbanism might be pursued in the future.' - Eamonn Canniffe, Principal Lecturer, Manchester School of Art, UK

• Introduction, 1. Spatial Quality and the Remaking of Urban Experience in Cairo, 2. Reconfiguring Bulaq, 3. Resurgence Planning in Revolutionary Egypt - The Bulaq Scheme of 1966, 4. Shifting towards Liberalisation - The Bulaq Scheme of 1978, 5. Old versus New - Bulaq Abul Ela Scheme of 2005, 6. Institutions of Planning Development in Cairo, 7. Legislative Framework of Planning Control for Spatial Quality, 8. Revealing Quality in the Cairene Context - Local Voice, Conclusion - The Politics of Remaking Spatial Quality

Gehan Selim is an architect and lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Sheffield, UK, and is a fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, UK.

'In Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re) making Cairo’s Old Quarters, Gehan Selim presents to us a thorough study of Bulaq, an old neighborhood in the City. In it, she employs the different types of planning produced under the Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak regimes to illustrate how the shifts in their forms of governance resulted in different forms of urbanism.' - Nezar AlSayyad, Professor of Architecture and Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA'Unfinished Places is a commanding discourse on urbanism and politics in one of the most important cities in the world. Representing a distinct yet elegiac interdisciplinary approach, Selim’s emphasis on the past and its impact on our future is a timely tour de force.' - Beverley Milton-Edwards, Convenor for MA Violence, Terrorism and Security, Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland'Cairo's long history is one of extraordinary richness, yet the experience of urban life for its citizens is largely hidden. Recent events have illustrated how the city's public realm has the potential to reflect the authentic voice of its population in a frame created by its elite. Unfinished Places is a detailed study of the Bulaq district of Cairo which subverts many of the assumptions about Arab cities and provides an exemplary template through which the exploration of world urbanism might be pursued in the future.' - Eamonn Canniffe, Principal Lecturer, Manchester School of Art, UK

• Introduction, 1. Spatial Quality and the Remaking of Urban Experience in Cairo, 2. Reconfiguring Bulaq, 3. Resurgence Planning in Revolutionary Egypt - The Bulaq Scheme of 1966, 4. Shifting towards Liberalisation - The Bulaq Scheme of 1978, 5. Old versus New - Bulaq Abul Ela Scheme of 2005, 6. Institutions of Planning Development in Cairo, 7. Legislative Framework of Planning Control for Spatial Quality, 8. Revealing Quality in the Cairene Context - Local Voice, Conclusion - The Politics of Remaking Spatial Quality