Ismailia : Inventing An urban Landscape in the Heart of the Isthmus of Suez (Egypt). Once the concession of the Isthmus of Suez had been granted by Mohamed Said, Viceroy of Egypt, in 1854, the Suez Maritime Canal Universal Company had not only to dig the waterway but also to settle alongside the canal three towns which would concentrate industrial buildings, port facilities, employees’ dwellings and administrative buildings. Ismailia, established in 1862 at mid length of the canal, between Port Said and Suez, was to be the future capital of the Isthmus. In the heart of the desert, the town, planned ex nihilo, had to offer all the decisive qualities to the maintaining, in a hostile environment, of the numerous European employees. French e...
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Egyptian Delta Land and Investment Company (Delta Lan...
the start of the sixteenth century saw the Red Sea in the throes of a clash between the old commerc...
International audienceIn 1867, fascinated by the new developments of Paris, the khedive of Egypt, Is...
Figure 1: A 1903 map of Ismailia Source: Archives nationales du monde du Travail, Roubaix, Fonds d...
This study puts forward, as problematics, the modernisation which, through its most superficial aspe...
Entre 1859 et 1956, la Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez a construit plus d’un millier...
In 1869, after the Suez Canal was opened, many of the engineers who had worked on the breakthrough o...
The harsh conditions of the Mediterranean coast contrast with those of the Nile valley. The coast is...
The Suez Canal is a waterway that cuts across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt connecting the Mediterran...
Between the 1850s and the early 1900s, an increasing number of migrants landed on Egypt’s shores. Eg...
The Ancient Egypt civilization developed beside, but with close relations with the Near-East and Més...
If the adoption of Islam in Africa was largely a result of trade networks, it should be added that E...
The ten years it took to dig the Suez canal, from 1859 to 1869, contribute to a founding chapter in ...
International audienceAt the end of the 1860s, Cairo and Paris had, a priori, very few elements in c...
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Egyptian Delta Land and Investment Company (Delta Lan...
the start of the sixteenth century saw the Red Sea in the throes of a clash between the old commerc...
International audienceIn 1867, fascinated by the new developments of Paris, the khedive of Egypt, Is...
Figure 1: A 1903 map of Ismailia Source: Archives nationales du monde du Travail, Roubaix, Fonds d...
This study puts forward, as problematics, the modernisation which, through its most superficial aspe...
Entre 1859 et 1956, la Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez a construit plus d’un millier...
In 1869, after the Suez Canal was opened, many of the engineers who had worked on the breakthrough o...
The harsh conditions of the Mediterranean coast contrast with those of the Nile valley. The coast is...
The Suez Canal is a waterway that cuts across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt connecting the Mediterran...
Between the 1850s and the early 1900s, an increasing number of migrants landed on Egypt’s shores. Eg...
The Ancient Egypt civilization developed beside, but with close relations with the Near-East and Més...
If the adoption of Islam in Africa was largely a result of trade networks, it should be added that E...
The ten years it took to dig the Suez canal, from 1859 to 1869, contribute to a founding chapter in ...
International audienceAt the end of the 1860s, Cairo and Paris had, a priori, very few elements in c...
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Egyptian Delta Land and Investment Company (Delta Lan...
the start of the sixteenth century saw the Red Sea in the throes of a clash between the old commerc...