Population, Poverty, and Politics in Middle East Cities

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Tables viii
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• Chapter 1 - Population, Poverty, and Politics Contemporary Middle East Cities in Crisis 1
• Part One - Municipal Government, Urban Planning, and Conserving the Urban Past 23
• Chapter 2 - Urbanization and Metropolitan Municipal Politics in Turkey 25
• Chapter 3 - Ruptures in the Evolution of the Middle Eastern City Amman 46
• Chapter 4 - Urban Conservation in the Old City of San˓a 64
• Part Two - Poverty and Marginalization in the Urban Middle East 83
• Chapter 5 - Responding to Middle Eastern Urban Poverty the Informal Economy in Tunis 85
• Chapter 6 - Devotion as Distinction, Piety as Power Religious Revival and the Transformation of Space in the ILlegal Settlements of Tunis 113
• Chapter 7 - Muscat Social Segregation and Comparative Poverty in the Expanding Capital of An Oil State 141
• Part Three - Health and Gender and the Urban Environment 167

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Tables viii
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• Chapter 1 - Population, Poverty, and Politics Contemporary Middle East Cities in Crisis 1
• Part One - Municipal Government, Urban Planning, and Conserving the Urban Past 23
• Chapter 2 - Urbanization and Metropolitan Municipal Politics in Turkey 25
• Chapter 3 - Ruptures in the Evolution of the Middle Eastern City Amman 46
• Chapter 4 - Urban Conservation in the Old City of San˓a 64
• Part Two - Poverty and Marginalization in the Urban Middle East 83
• Chapter 5 - Responding to Middle Eastern Urban Poverty the Informal Economy in Tunis 85
• Chapter 6 - Devotion as Distinction, Piety as Power Religious Revival and the Transformation of Space in the ILlegal Settlements of Tunis 113
• Chapter 7 - Muscat Social Segregation and Comparative Poverty in the Expanding Capital of An Oil State 141
• Part Three - Health and Gender and the Urban Environment 167
• Chapter 8 - The Crowded Metropolis Health and Nutrition in Cairo 169
• Chapter 9 - Population, Poverty, and Gender Politics Motherhood Pressures and Marital Crises in the Lives of Poor Urban Egyptian Women 186
• Chapter 10 - Gender and Health Abortion in Urban Egypt 208
• Part Four - Islam and Politics: War. Revolution, and Protest in the Middle Eastern City 235
• Chapter 11 - Urbanization and Political Instability in the Middle East 237
• Chapter 12 - Urbanization, Migration, and Politics of Protest in Iran 256
• Chapter 13 - Islam, Islamism, and Urbanization in Sudan Contradictions and Complementaries 285
• Chapter 14 - The New Veiling and Urban Crisis Symbolic Politics in Cairo 304
• Conclusion 327
• Chapter 15 - Are Cities in the Middle East Sustainable? 329
• Contributors 343
• Index 349