Monuments of Historic Cairo A Map and Descriptive Catalogue

Name: Monuments of Historic Cairo A Map and Descriptive Catalogue
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ISBN: 9789774248412

ISBN-10: 9774248414

ISBN-13: 9789774248412

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nicholas Warner

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Comprising thirty-one maps at a metric scale of 1:1,250 and a descriptive catalogue, The Monuments of Historic Cairo marks the first time that the city's significant architectural heritage has been mapped in ground plan within the present-day urban context. The work surveys an area of nearly six square kilometers, stretching from the city's northern walls southward to the Mosque of Ibn Tulun and the Citadel. It documents an extraordinary variety of historically important monuments, and includes street patterns that have now disappeared but that are crucial for understanding how the city has developed over the course of more than a thousand years. The catalogue provides historical…

Book details

List price: $59.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 10.00" wide x 13.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 6.116
Language: English