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Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle EastCase Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey$
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Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey

Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, and Eric Dennis

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9789774165405

Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: January 2013

DOI: 10.5743/cairo/9789774165405.001.0001

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Mukhalafat in Damascus: The Form of an Informal Settlement

Mukhalafat in Damascus: The Form of an Informal Settlement

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(p.13) 1 Mukhalafat in Damascus: The Form of an Informal Settlement
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Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Author(s):

Etienne Léna

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American University in Cairo Press
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774165405.003.0002

This chapter details the stages of construction of an informal settlement in the countryside near Damascus. It analyzes the unified look created by the use of concrete blocks, then examines the negotiations related to passageways between houses, and describes the physical connections created between houses by the water pipes attached to artesian wells. It presents the complexity of informal urban landscapes in the countryside around Damascus, made up of groups of buildings and visible networks based on kinship and neighborhood relationships.

Keywords:   Informal settlement, building techniques, social networks, Damascus

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