Government Publications

Arab Republic of Egypt, Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, Statistical Year Book 1992-1998, Arab Republic of Egypt, CAPMAS, Cairo, 1999.

Arab Republic of Egypt, Ministry of Information State Information Service, Year Book 1999, Arab Republic of Egypt, State Information Service, Cairo, 2000.

Egypt Human Development Reports, United Nations Development Program 1997-2004 http://www.undp.org.eg/publications/NHDR.htm

Books and Monographs

Abu-Lughod, J.L., Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1971.

Humphreys, A., Cairo, Lonely Planet, Hawthorn, 1998.

Rodenbeck, J. (ed.), Cairo, APA Publications, London, 2000 (Updated 2nd edition).

Rodenbeck, M., Cairo - The City Victorious, Picador, London, 1998.

The Expanding Metropolis: Coping With the Urban Growth of Cairo, Proceedings of Seminar Nine in the Series Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World, Cairo, November 11-15, 1984, Concept Media, Singapore, 1985.

United Nations, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, Population Growth and Policies in Mega-Cities - Cairo, United Nations, New York, 1990.

United Nations, Population Division, World Urbanisation Prospects: The 2001 Revision, United Nations, New York, 2002 (http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm).

Articles

Bayat, A. and Denis, E., 'Who is afraid of ashwaiyyat? Urban change and politics in Egypt', Environment and Urbanization, 12(2), 2000, pp. 185-199.

Ghannam, F., 'Re-imagining the global: relocation and local identities in Cairo', pp. 119-139 in A. Oncu and P. Weyland (eds.), Space, Culture and Power: New Identities in Globalising Cities, Zed Books, London, 1997.

Harris, R. and Wahba, M., 'The urban geography of low-income housing: Cairo (1947-96) exemplifies a model', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 26(1), 2002, pp. 58-79.

Haynes, K.E. and El-Hakim, S.M., 'Appropriate technology and public policy: the urban waste management system in Cairo', Geographical Review, 69, 1979, pp. 100-108.

Hopkins, N.S. et al., 'Pollution and people in Cairo', pp. 3-28 in S.S. Gomaa (ed), Environmental Threats in Egypt: Perceptions and Actions, Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 17, Monograph 4, Winter 1994/1995.

Kamel, K., 'A tale of two factories', pp. 29-39 in S.S. Gomaa (ed), Environmental Threats in Egypt: Perceptions and Actions, Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 17, Monograph 4, Winter 1994/1995.

Khalifa, A.M. and Moheiddin, M.M., 'Cairo', pp. 235-267 in M. Dogan and J.D. Kasarda (eds.), The Metropolis Era Volume 2: Mega-Cities, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, 1988.

Rodenbeck, J., 'Cultural heritage as environment: area conservation in Cairo's historic zone', pp. 75-92 in S.S. Gomaa (ed), Environmental Threats in Egypt: Perceptions and Actions, Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 17, Monograph 4, Winter 1994/1995.

Stewart, D.J., 'Cities in the desert: the Egyptian New-Town Program', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86(3), 1996, pp. 459-480.

Sutton, K. and Fahmi, W., 'Cairo's urban growth and strategic master plans in the light of Egypt's 1996 population census results', Cities, 18(3), 2001, pp. 135-149.

The Economist, Special Correspondent, 'On the rooftops, in the cemeteries', The Economist, 256 (27 September), 1975, p. 59.

United Nations, Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Population Division, The Challenge of Urbanisation: The World's Large Cities, United Nations, New York, 1995. ('Cairo', pp. 55-58).

Yousry, M. and Atta, T.A.A., 'The challenge of urban growth in Cairo', pp. 111-149 in C. Rakodi (ed.), The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of its Large Cities, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 1997.

Yousry, M., Abu-Zekry, T. and Yousry, A.M., 'Cairo as a world city: the impact of Cairo's orientation towards globalisation', pp. 270-313 in F-C. Lo and Y-M. Yeumg (eds.), Globalisation and the World of Large Cities, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 1998.

On-line Newspapers

Al-Ahram Weekly

Middle East Times (http://metimes.com/)