| Titre | Topographie sociale et limites. Le Caire à la fin du XIXe siècle / Social topography and spatial limits in Cairo at the end of the XlXth century | |
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| Auteur | Arnaud Jean-Luc | |
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Revue |
Géocarrefour Titre à cette date : Revue de géographie de Lyon |
| Numéro | volume 73, no 3, 1998 Géographie sociale de l'Egypte : ouverture et cloisonnement | |
| Page | 203-215 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Using a population census of Cairo and maps dating from the end of the 19th century, this article analyses the city's limits at a key period of its urbanization ; over the previous 50 years, the population had doubled. The comparison of morphological indicators (city perimeter, density) with statistical markers of urban development shows that the distribution of the population was not homogenous. Thus, rural settlers living in an urban environment were far more numerous than urban dewellers who resided in the countryside. The city seemed impervious from the interior towards the surrounding area, but easily accessible in the opposite sense. Transport means and particularly the railways played an important role in explaining this difference. In addition, the major contrast which delimits the three concentric zones which have been identified relates not only to differences in the population but above all to differences in the composition of these populations. The outskirts of the city are very homogenous whereas it is in the center that major contrasts exist within a very small area. Finally, even though the distribution of the population was organized around an east-west axis, a north-south divide separated the former urban fabric from the extensions dating from the end of the 1860s which had a different morphology. Urbs and civitas were both united within a single ensemble ; however, their limits were not superimposed but rather concentric in character. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/geoca_0035-113x_1998_num_73_3_4827 |
