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DESCRIPTION:In Politics in the Crevices\, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into
  the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In
  this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid
  transformations\, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away 
 from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city. She ou
 tlines how multiple actors—from highly capitalized international NGOs and c
 orporations to city dwellers\, bureaucrats\, and planning experts—use caref
 ul urban design to empower conflicting agendas\, whether manipulating prope
 rty markets to protect affordable housing or corner luxury real estate. El-
 Kazaz shows that such contemporary politicizations of urban design stem fro
 m unresolved struggles at the heart of messy transitions from the welfare s
 tate to neoliberalism\, which have shifted the politics of redistribution f
 rom contested political arenas to design practices operating withinmarket l
 ogics\, ultimately relocating political struggles onto the city’s most inti
 mate crevices. In so doing\, she raises critical questions about the role o
 f market reforms in redistributing resources and challenges readers to reth
 ink neoliberalism and the fundamental ways it shapes cities and polities.
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SUMMARY:Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property M
 arkets in Cairo and Istanbul
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 d_the_making_of_property_markets_in_cairo_and_istanbul
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