Cairo: Architectural Guide
A thousand years of Cairo building by building, from Fatimid mosques and Mamluk tombs to colonial downtown and Nasser-era modernism, with plans and photographs.
Fatimid mosques, Mamluk tombs, colonial downtown and Nasser-era modernism, presented building by building with photographs, plans and enough history to explain why each district looks as it does. Reading the architecture of a city turns out to be among the most efficient ways of learning everything else about it.
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Tyler Cowen
A picture book, sort of. Reading a book on the architectural history of a place, while intrinsically interesting, is also usually the best way to learn the non-architectural history of that same place. Recommended.
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