Magdalena Milosz
Of
the
thesis
entitled: “Don’t Let
Fear
Take
Over”:
The
Space
and
Memory
of
Indian
Residential
Schools
Abstract:
The
Indian
Residential
School
(IRS)
system
in
Canada directly
affected
150,000
Indigenous
children
who
were
taken
to
state-sponsored and
church-run
institutions
to
separate
them
from
their
families
and
cultures. During
the
century
and
a
half
leading
up
to
around
1970,
over 130
IRS
were scattered
throughout
the
country.
The
role
of
architecture
in
this
genocidal system
is
a
crucial,
but
overlooked
aspect
of
its
realization.
In
the
first decades
of
the
twentieth
century,
the
Canadian
government
became
increasingly involved
in
building
and
rebuilding the
IRS,
as
a
dedicated
arm
of
the Department
of
Indian
Affairs
in
Ottawa
became
a
centrally
controlled
apparatus of
architectural
production.
Passing
from
utopian
space
to
evolving
memory,
the architectural
remnants
of
the
IRS
system
tell
many
stories,
among
those
that need to
be
heard
and
acknowledged
by
contemporary
Canadian
society
as
part
of its
troubled
relationship
with
Indigenous
peoples.
Through
archival
research,
documentation,
narrative, and
critical
analysis,
explorations
of
four
former
IRS
sites
configure
this thesis,
each
providing
a
lens
on
the
space
and
memory
of
this
difficult
and often
traumatic
past.
Located
in
Ontario
and
Manitoba,
they
were
designed, fully
or
in
part,
by
the
little-known
R.G.
(Roland
Guerney)
Orr,
Chief Architect
of
Indian
Affairs
from
1921
to
1935.
Mapping
architecture
to ideology,
I
examine
the
development
of
the
Mohawk
Institute
in
Brantford, Ontario
in
the
legal
and
political
contexts
of
Indigenous-Canadian
relations. At
the
abandoned
Birtle
IRS
in
southwestern
Manitoba,
the
institutional
intricacies of
this
broad
view
come
into
focus
through
a
critique
of
the
architectural program
and
its
intentions.
Nearby,
at
the
site
of
the
demolished
Brandon
IRS, the
heap
of
leftover debris
calls
forth
questions
of
collective
memory, explored
through
conventional
representations
and
their
transformations
in
the art
of
survivors
and
post-residential
school
Indigenous
artists.
I
consider
the archive
and
its
role
in
bringing
forth
the
future
at
the
former
Shingwauk Hall in
Sault
Ste.
Marie,
Ontario,
now
the
site
of
Shingwauk
Kinoomaage
Gamig,
an Anishinaabe
post-secondary
institution,
and
Algoma
University.
Finally,
I return
to
the
Woodland
Cultural
Centre,
located
next
to
the
Mohawk
Institute building
and
whose
staff
are
currently reimagining
the
former
IRS
based
on feedback
from
the
community.
Rather
than
resting
on
conclusions,
this
thesis probes
these
difficult
histories
as
an
opening
up
towards
the
future,
propelled by
the
past
but
open
to
spaces
of
divergence.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
Supervisor:
Andrew
Levitt,
University
of
Waterloo
Committee
Members:
Robert
Jan
Van
Pelt,
University
of
Waterloo
William
Woodworth
External
Reader:
Paula
Whitlow,
Curator Woodland
Cultural
Centre
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
10:00AM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
William Elsworthy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: Energy
and
Matter
:
The
design
of
a nature
centre,
tunnel
and
neutrino
observatory
Abstract:
Neutrino
physics
proposes
radical
new
conceptions
of
matter. Contemplating the
extraordinary
and
mysterious
nature
of
neutrinos
in
architectural
terms, Energy
and Matter considers
the
ideas
and
implications
of
this exciting
field
in three
inter-linked
design
proposals—a
nature
centre,
access
tunnel,
and neutrino
observatory—that
connect
multiple
disciplines
in
the
natural
sciences, engineering,
and
architectural
theory.
Working from
a
position
that acknowledges
the
significance
of
technical
concerns,
this
thesis
proposes
an architecture
that
readily
engages
with
technology,
construction,
and
building systems,
as
well
as
the
specialized instruments
used
to
detect
neutrinos,
while exploring
the
equivalence
and
fluidity
of
energy
and
matter,
form
and
forces. This
hybrid
approach
reasserts
architecture’s
role
in
the
design
of
buildings for
science,
allowing these
enormous
collective
projects
to
communicate
their cultural
significance
as
manifestations
of
our
current
understanding
of
the universe.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
Supervisor:
Committee Members:
Philip Beesley, University of Waterloo
Dereck Revington, University of Waterloo
Ryszard Sliwka, University of Waterloo
Dr. Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday,
January
7,
2015
2:00PM
Architecture
Loft
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.
Amr elBahrawy
Of
the
thesis
entitled: A House
of
No
Importance
:
The rise
and
fall
of
Nasr
City’s
middle
class
extended
family
houses
Abstract:
Since
its
urban
boom
around the
mid
1980s,
the
Cairene
residential
district
of
Nasr
City
has
been
the
hub
for a
unique
housing
phenomenon.
It
has
seen
middle
class
professionals appropriating
its
apartment
building
typologies
into households
for
their extended
families.
Over
the
past
ten
years,
however,
many
of
those
families have
been
aiming
to
relocate
their
households
to
the
emerging
suburban
developments on
Cairo’s
periphery.
This
desire
seems
to
be driven
by
nothing
more
than
their aspiration
for
the
simulacrums
of
luxury
and
social
status
associated
with suburban
living.
Apart
from
superficial
stylistic
variations
in
architectural expression,
the
housing
typologies
in
these suburbs
offer
the
same
functional arrangements
as
those
in
Nasr
City;
and
as
per
their
building
bylaws
they accommodate
the
co-existence
of
fewer
extended
family
generations.
These
facts, coupled
with
the
increased
financial hardships
involved
in
acquiring
a
new suburban
dwelling,
highlight
the
absurdity
of
the
middle
class
professionals’
desire for
such
relocation.
Not
only
does
it
deplete
their
monetary
standing
in
an Egyptian
society
that
now recognizes
affluence
as
the
only
measure
of
social status,
but
it
also
debases
the
solidarity
inherent
in
their
characteristic intergenerational
living.
That
is
to
say,
it
compromises
the
basis
of
the
very social
status
they
are
aiming
to preserve.
This thesis tracks the history of 11 El-Insha Street, an apartment building–extended family household in Nasr City, as well as the history of the street it stands on, over the span of 30 years. That narrative serves as the basis for a discussion of the evolution of the Egyptian middle class, Nasr City, and the apartment building – extended family house typology. Through an extensive analytical framework of demographic and urban data, the discourse of this thesis tracks the link between middle class professionals and that particular housing typology; its particular prevalence in Nasr City once upon time; and the current trend of its extinction as its inhabitants relocate to the suburbs.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows: