Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'City of Cairo (Ship)'

Excavations conducted in A.D. 1894 and 1895 by French archaeologist Jean- Jacques de Morgan at the funerary complex of the ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senwosret III on the plain of Dahshur revealed some unparalleled finds which included five or six small boats. These boats provide a unique opportunity in nautical archaeology—to study contemporaneous hulls. Today, only four of the "Dahshur boats" can be located with certainty; two are in the United States, one in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and one in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The remaining two are on display in The Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Since their excavation these boats remained relatively inconspicuous until the mid-1980s when a study of the two hulls in the United States was conducted. However, the two boats in Cairo remained largely unpublished. This thesis combines personal observation and recording of the Cairo boats over two summers to reveal more unique characteristics of the hulls and will facilitate a future study of the group as a whole. Each boat is discussed individually and is further divided into its major components by order of construction.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Dona J. Stewart, committee chair; Elaine J. Hallisey, Jeremy Crampton, committee members. Electronic text (135 p. : maps (some col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 18, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-134).

Green spaces are the lungs of any city. Egyptian cities are historically characterized by high densities and compacted urban forms, developed through cultural, religious and climatic factors. In such arid contexts, the golden thread weaving sustainability concepts together is 'greening'. The sustainability challenge facing such cities is finding new and more appropriate ways of greening high density, compact and diverse urban environments. The main aim of this thesis is analysing the dynamics of green space, by studying both the demand and supply of green spaces in Cairo, a city suffering from bad and worsening health. Addressing the problem requires a sophisticated and realistic analysis of the dynamics of open space provision and consumption. The thesis adopts a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches to collecting and analysing data in order to achieve a deep understanding of the reasons behind the city's green space performance problems. The aim is to give a scientific diagnosis of the city's problems as a basis for further attempts to solve and tackle the problems. The idea for the research reported in this thesis starts from the observations that (a) The amount of green space in Cairo, capital of Egypt, is diminishing through urban encroachment of agricultural land; (b) Recreational green space has historically been provided at a very low level compared to other cities globally and in the region; (c) Much of the green space that is provided - by municipal government or private entrepreneurs - is provided as a club good, enclosed and charged for either by membership fee or entry toll. These observations provide both encouragement and challenge to policy makers aiming to make Cairo more sustainable. The analysis is broadly structured to understand both the supply of and the demand for green space in Cairo. Chapter Six focuses on the mechanisms of supply that have emerged at different times in the city's history. Chapters Seven and Eight explore residents' demands and requirements based on a systematic multi-stage cluster survey of the entire city, stratified for different green space supply institutional and morphological types. In a city like Cairo, where natural resources are very scarce and opportunities for spending on green infrastructure are very rare, it is pivotal for any new developments to be based on a clear understanding of the situation in the city. This thesis tries to draw the clearest picture yet achieved of urban green space provision in Cairo. It is offered to policy makers, planners, entrepreneurs and investors to help enrich the lives of the future generations of this great and ancient city.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-80).
This essay is an application of Ibn Khaldun's theories of culture and civilization to a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo . The study is based on the premise that the city is an historical process governed by an underlying set of cultural conditions. Those conditions manifest themselves in the physical form of the city. Ibn Khaldun formulated his theories as tools for investigating the nature of social phenomena. He considered such investigation a necessary step towards understanding and recording the historical events. His concept of history, stated in the first part of this study, is based on a cyclical pattern of cultural change which leads to the rise and fall of civilization. The city in his framework becomes an aspect of civilization following the same inevitable evolutionary pattern. The first part of this study examines those theories and focuses on their important aspects. The second part introduces some historical facts about the evolution of medieval Cairo and analyses them using the premises of Ibn Khaldun's theories. The reports of al-Maqrizi - a fifteenth century historian of Cairo - provided the historical information necessary for this investigation. The study raised some issues concerning the use of Ibn Khaldun's theories in pursuing such kind of studies, and the knowledge of the Islamic city which need to be reassessed. Those issues are presented in the last section under Reflections.
by Tawfiq F. Abu-Hantash.
M.S.

Drawing mainly on Lefebvre’s, Soja’s and Smith’s theorizations of space in order to understand the spatial dynamics of social inequality, this study investigates how a low-income Syrian refugee community negotiates its precarious location in a neighborhood on the periphery of one of Cairo’s desert ‘New Towns’. It also examines the way in which urban spatiality shapes the everyday lived reality of this particular community of Syrians. Through an ethnographic focus, I explore how Syrian people living in Cairo are marginalized through broader processes of neoliberal capitalist development which in turn give rise to socio-spatial disparities within cityspace. By developing the concept of socio-spatial exclusion imbued with defiant (hyper)locality, I argue that although these Syrian refugees lack access to transportation and other types of social services, they nevertheless manage to disrupt the spatial status-quo by devising creative solutions to problems concerning amenity availability in the neighborhood where they live. The investigation of these urban trajectories are guided by the notion that spatiality is at once a social product as well as a force in shaping social life. Research for this project draws on multiple sources, including conversations with neighborhood residents, interviews with NGOs and Cairo-based specialists on refugees and urban development, as well as ethnographic observation, an online questionnaire, satellite imagery and social media content.

Due to urbanization and the population of cities producing up to 75% of emission, Smart City concepts, looking at sustainability and more efficiency within the city, with the help of IoT and ICT based technology, are seen as an opportunity to act future-oriented, today. Construction and transportation are seen as the main contributors on the way of change from energy consumption to energy production. Enhancing infrastructure to improve the quality of all sorts of public transportation is thus of utter importance to governance, interested in Smart City concepts. Looking at the literature, waterborne transportation has not received much scientific attention in the context of being implemented into Smart City initiatives. This systematic literature research draws logical conclusions from the researched literature. The research concludes with a research agenda for future research to deepen the knowledge in the explanatory field of waterborne transportation making use of Smart City technologies. The main findings of this thesis are: First, waterborne transportation poses a threat to the environment and impacts sustainability of water bodies, as well as the environment surrounding them. Second, Smart City technologies can successfully be implemented in waterborne transportation when carefully planned. Barriers for the implementation of Smart City concepts can be lack of knowledge, investment, data security and readiness of infrastructure. These can be overcome through the help of collaboration and knowledge sharing among the involved stakeholders. Third, the image of the industry can be shifted, as well as its direct impact and the indirect use of waterborne transportation can be made more sustainable and ecosystem friendly. This transition attracts further customers, who otherwise were not willing to use waterborne transportation. In order to make waterborne transportation more sustainable and part of the Smart City movement, knowledge needs to be deepened and awareness about the topic needs to be spread. Its use of Smart City technologies needs to be further investigated, looking at specific types and tailored solutions for them, as well as how beneficial such an investment can be for governments and companies regarding ecological costs and their image. This thesis mainly aims to help scholars, interested in further research to deepen the knowledge on waterborne transportation in a sustainability context, but also companies and governance, looking to make waterborne transportation more sustainable.

La question de l'internationalisation des financements de la ville s'avère centrale pour comprendre le fonctionnement des marchés internationaux et l'évolution du rôle de l’État dans les modes de gouvernance urbaine. Elle se présente également comme une grille de lecture pertinente pour étudier les impacts sur la production urbaine des fonctionnements néolibéraux des pays en développement et de leur dépendance aux partenaires internationaux. Car l'un des enjeux de la financiarisation de la ville est celui du rôle des acteurs, notamment à travers les modes de gouvernance : lorsque l'équilibre des projets de développement urbain n'est pas garanti, qui sont les acteurs qui jouent le rôle de régulateurs? Comment le risque financier est-il distribué et absorbé, alors que le temps long entre vente et achat dans l'investissement immobilier fait exister deux temporalités différentes : celle de la finance globale, qui obéit à des logiques de court terme afin de dégager des marges de rentabilité rapides; et celle du construit urbain, davantage étalée dans le temps. Or, plus le temps de résolution du capital dans l'immobilier est long, plus le montant des valeurs excédentaires est bas. La question de la distinction entre secteur public et secteur privé est également centrale dans l'étude de ce sujet, puisque qu'elle renvoie à la signification du retrait de l’État de la gouvernance urbaine en tant que moyen pour donner davantage de pouvoir aux investisseurs privés. Étudier cette distinction est un moyen de comprendre quels sont les mécanismes de régulation et d'équilibre des marchés liés à la production de la ville. La fabrique du Caire avant et après le soulèvement populaire de 2011 dans la vague des Printemps Arabes est un laboratoire pertinent pour l'analyse de ces questionnements. Au Caire, les modes de gouvernance spécifiques basés sur l'accumulation des richesses par une élite ont été remis en question par la révolution de 2011. La succession des régimes transitoires et les nombreux procès qui ont visé les cessions de terrain frauduleuses par les hommes d'affaires les plus puissants du pays ont semblé être une avancée dans les revendications pour le droit à la ville des révolutionnaires. La lutte pour davantage de justice a provoqué une redéfinition de l'assabiya dirigeante, communauté d'acteurs publics et privés basée sur des liens de mariage et de sang. Mais elle n'a pas ébranlé le système néolibéral reposant sur les rouages de la corruption et du bakchich ainsi que sur la dépendance de la croissance égyptienne aux aides occidentales et régionales, bien au contraire. Le nouveau régime reproduit grâce à une main de fer le système néolibéral d'avant la révolution : enrichir un noyau d'acteurs privés faisant partie d'une élite proche du régime. Cette élite rassemble des proches de l'ancien régime de Moubarak, dont certains ont fait l'objet de sanctions post­révolution, appliquées, levées ou adoucies de manière arbitraire par l’État qui affirme ainsi son pouvoir sur la communauté d'acteurs privés. L'émergence de l'institution militaire comme pouvoir gouvernemental en apparence unitaire n'a pas remis en question la position d'un État centralisé, alors que les pays du Golfe sont devenus incontournables : ce sont des créanciers qu'il faudra rembourser, en liquide ou en nature, et leur poids dans l'économie égyptienne est croissant, en particulier dans le secteur immobilier. La fabrique du Caire semble s'orienter vers une urbanité exclusive et participe à la création d'un arrière-pays du Golf. [...]
The issue of internationalization of financial involvement in Cairo's urban environment is fundamental in understanding the increasing role that international actors play in the region. Additionally, it enables a clearer perception of the State's increasing role through directive urban governance and is also central to any analysis of recent development of the city's social geography. This broad perspective is also a key to understanding the impact of neoliberal policies in developing countries and their increased dependence on international partnerships for urban development. One of the main explanation factors of the financialization of the city's construction is the evolving role of its various actors, through changing governance modes: who are the actors of large-scale real estate, when the balance of urban development project is not secured? One way of addressing this issue is through the question: "how is the risk distributed and absorbed where there exists two timescales, because of the mismatch between selling and buying in real estate investment?" These are the temporality of global finance, which obeys short term logics to serve specific interests and the temporality of the urban fabric which is over a much longer period of time. The longer the period for real estate return on investment, the lower the amount of profit for the investor. Distinction (or the lack of) between public and private sector interests and motivations remains the key parameter, since it refers to the State's withdrawal for urban governance as a way to give more power to private investors. The complex interference between public and private sector is therefore part of the very definition of the city financialization. This study is a way to understand mechanisms of regulation and balance of the markets related to the city production. The urban production of Cairo, before and after the Arab Spring popular uprising of 2011 is also a highly meaningful laboratory to analyze mobilization against financialization of urban production. ln Cairo, specific governance based on wealth accumulation by elite had been called into question by the 2011 revolution. The succession of transitory regimes and the numerous trials targeting fraudulent sales of some of the most powerful businessmen of the country could be viewed as a progress, in citizen's right to the city, of the revolutionaries. The fight for more justice caused a redefinition of the ruling assabiya, a community of public and private actors related by blood or marriage. But it did not destroy the corruption-based system, nor the dependence of Egyptian growth on occidental and regional aids, quite to the contrary. The specificity of the Egyptian neoliberal system is based on refusal of the state to let the contractors take control and on the interference of the public elite in contractors' activities. The new regime replicates with a heavier hand, this system from before the revolution. This enriches a core of actors belonging to an elite close to the regime. [...]

This dissertation investigates the ways in which the natural and the social overlap in the symbolic center of human activity, cities. Cities are full of living organisms, existing not in a perfect state of equilibrium but rather in states of constant flux. The cycles of life moving through the city of Cairo, Egypt are dependent on water as a vital component and scarce resource in systems of biological exchange, as well as one among many pieces of infrastructure that the city requires to survive. This dissertation looks at the informal systems that residents of a squatter settlement in Cairo, Egypt called Ezbet Khairallah have created to make life possible, as well as their attempts to get the state to formally provide these services; work that is done at collective scales and in everyday practices. The dissertation also looks at what happens when areas such as Ezba are successful in getting the state to recognize them and institutionalize utility services, what the hidden costs and unintended consequences are of becoming formal end users of state systems. The dissertation provides an overview of the forces at work in shaping Cairo, highlighting the rural to urban migration patterns and shifting urban policy over the course of the 20th century that have funneled so many into informal housing settlements. In addition, the dissertation highlights the particular material history of Ezbet Khairallah, and how that has shaped the social and material circumstances of residents. It examines the material and affective implications of being unable to escape waste, of bodies that bear signs of systems that both make life possible and make life difficult. By studying the institutional framework in which these questions get worked out in Egypt, we can better situate the struggles of those living in the urban margins of the global south, such as those in Ezbet Khairallah.
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Albert Cossery, known as the ‘story teller of Cairo’, weaves tales of the marginalized living in a city of the global South whose geographies have been impacted by colonial and neocolonial legacy. Cairo’s city and economic spaces have often been theorized as determined and dominated by the forces of neoliberalism, an approach that obscures the experience of residents who contest and evade these forces daily. For example, in “Les Couleurs de l’infamie”, the main character is a robin-hood archetype that revels in observing the resourcefulness of the city’s residents. ‘Alternative’ occupations and spatial uses abound: an unemployed philosopher teaches secretly out of the family crypt and a man has created his own trade in helping old women cross dangerous streets in the city. This paper approaches literature and the act of writing as being more-than-representational. It is a literary geography that considers how the city spaces and economic possibilities of Cairo are performed by Cossery’s writings, and how this performance can be considered an act of resistance.

碩士
國立彰化師範大學
商業教育學系
100
Abstract A questionnaire survey is developed to investigate the relations between attitude life and interpersonal relationship.The participants of the study include all the government staffs in Changhua City excluding skilled technicians,janitors and part-time employees. The results are analyzed with descriptive statistics ， the conclusion and findings are listed as followed: 1.The government staffs’ performance on the attitudes toward life is on average of 3.46. The grade point average from high to low is the attitudes to death, ideals,life experiences,exist,love and to be concerned,and the life liberty. 2. The government staffs’ performance on interpersonal relationship is on average of 3.70. The grade point average from high to low is to control , to accept , to trust,and emotions. 3. As the results,job levels, marriage conditions, health conditions and sports habbits have some differences to the attitudes toward life. Lvels is a key factor which affects the attitudes to life and interpersonal relationship. 4. As the results,job levels, marriage conditions, health conditions and sports habbits have some differences to interpersonal relationship. 5. There are significant positive correlation between the attitudes toward life and the interpersonal relationship,which mean the more positive the attitudes toward life ,the better their interpersonal relationship. Key words: the government staffs, life attitudes toward ,interpersonal relationship

碩士
中華大學
機械工程學系碩士班
102
This study aims at exploring the relationship between P Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty. The main purpose of this study was to: (1) Investigate current situation of Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty. (2) Explore the different influence effect of different variables on the Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty . (3) Analyze the relationships between Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty. After collecting and summarizing related literatures, To achieve the above-stated goals, surveys were conducted using purposive sampling. A total of 200 questionnaires were issued and 157 were valid. Descriptive statistics , T test , Anova, Pearson-moment correlation correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. The study results are as the following: (A) Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty has a positive impact.(B) different backgrounds having differences in Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty. .Finally, according to the researchers findings were suggestions for businesses, and subsequent studies, in order to be helpful for the future development. Keywork: Experiential marketing, brand image, satisfaction, loyalty

碩士
國立交通大學
運輸與物流管理學系
104
In recent years, the cruise industry is booming. With the saturation of American cruise market, the development focus of the cruise industry is gradually moving to Asia, which is the cruise emerging market. In 2015, there are 660 thousand passengers pass in and out in Taiwan, which has grown three times as in 2007. Although a large number of cruise in Port can revitalize the economy and promote tourism development to the Port City, too many tourists will also have a negative impact on Port City. To investigate the impact of the cruise docking in the Keelung city is the main purpose of this study. The study is based on DPSIR model, and establishes the impact indicator of the cruise ship on the port city and the comprehensive indicator. We use the Keelung Port as an example to explore the feasibility of indicators and propose the impact mechanism of the cruise ship entering the port to analysis the case which there has been several cruises in the port whether adding a new one or not. Finally, the study builds the traffic light as the reference for judgment.

碩士
中華大學
行政管理學系
105
The objective of the study is to investigate and analyze the correlation ship between web-usage behavior and interpersonal relationship of students in HsinChu city elementary schools. The result of this study will positively provide valuable information to help improving and preventing students’ internet addiction for the reference of elementary school teachers, consultants and government related staffs. The questionnaire survey method was applied in this study. The obtained data is analyzed by means of Frequency Distribution, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, T-test, Side tests the card, One-way ANOVA and Multiple Regression analysis. Based on the result of the analysis, four verdicts are concluded as below: 1.Most of the students in this study have been exposed to use the network more than two years. The common place to surf the Net is at home. The average usage time is within an hour each time, mainly for playing on-line games. 2.The students’ web-usage behavior is extensively varied with the variables of genders, ages, social status and parents’ education levels. 3.Male students’ internet addiction is significantly much higher than female students. Students who are from single parenting families have higher percentage of internet addiction than those who are from nuclear families. 4.In the aspect of internet interpersonal relationship, the grade six students possess better link than those of grade five, and students from single parenting family are better than those from nuclear family. The female students have superior interpersonal relationship than the male students in the real life. Based on the study result, those students from single parenting families should be provided with a consistent and adequate concern and care by the social welfare organizations and educational related bureaus. Regarding the internet usage, parents are urged to stipulate regulations for their kids to follow. Instead of staying at home, outdoor activities are recommended to enhance the family relationship during the leisure time or holidays.

碩士
國立高雄師範大學
成人教育研究所在職專班
94
The primary purposes of this study are: (1) to discuss the current were situation of the interpersonal relationships and organizational climate of the full-time administrative staffs. (2) to analyze the differences in self-efficacy, interpersonal relationships, and organizational climate. (3) to investigate the relationship , interpersonal relationships, and organizational climate. for full-time administrative staffs. The procedures of this study include three stages: the first stage is to review the related theories, and empirical studies in interpersonal relationships, and organizational climate. The second stage is to establish the validity and reliability of the measurement tools which include tow scales of, interpersonal relationships , and organizational climate. Reliability tests showed the α value of the measurement tools, used in this study, ranged from .93 to .96. And the factor analysis revealed each questionnaire holding good construct validity. The third stage is to execute the inquiry of the final formal questionnaires. Of subjects were sampled from tainan city and county, junior high school and elementary school in Taiwan. Five hundred copies of formal questionnaires were delivered to the subjects and there were 482 responders. The rate of valid response data was 96 %. Finally, valid data were analyzed with statistical tests including descriptive statistics, independent sample t test, one-way ANOVA , one-way MANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment corelation, and multiple regression analysis. The results and conclusions drawn in this study are: 1. The interpersonal relationships of full-time administrative staffs is a good than middle degree, while the “Reliable” is the highest of them. 2. The service “Dean's Office”, marriage, to hold a post class number in 13-24 class, and service elementary full-time administrative staffs had better best in “interpersonal relationships “. 3. The organizational climate of the full-time administrative staffs is attains to positive level, while the “act of affinity ” is the highest of them. 4. The full-time administrative staffs with college graduates had better satisfaction in “act of alimentation” of organizational climate than those who are from institutes. 5. The Seniority full-time administrative staffs had better strong felt in “organizational climate“. 6. The miniature school full-time administrative staffs had better strong felt in “act of alimentation “, while the large school full-time administrative staffs had better strong felt in “act of cold-shoulder “ 7. The full-time administrative staffs felt in interpersonal relationships comparatively is fine ,than organizational climate is good. 8. In regression forecast for the full-time administrative staffs interpersonal relationships to organizational climate, In “act of alimenation”“act of interruptions”“act of cold-shoulder”“act of affinity” especially the“harmonious” motivation has the biggest predictability, In“ act of field”“ organizational climate” especially the“cooperation” motivation has the biggest predictability. Findings and suggestions in this study would provide a reference for principal, manager, supervisor, and management researcher to promote the interpersonal relationships of administrative clerk in edicine-related institutions.

The ashwaiyat or informal areas in contemporary Egypt are vast residential areas built during the last several decades without any means of regulation or following principles of physical planning. They gradually came to existence because of the continuing migration from the countryside to cities and by natural population growth. The newcomers, who were not able to find adequate housing in accordance with their economic possibilities, started to build their houses on private agricultural land which was not intended for building purposes, or on state desert land, to which they had no legal tenure rights. Any infrastructure in such areas was constructed relying solely on self-help. Despite the fact that the ashwaiyat phenomenon has grown substantially, it has not been addressed nor treated officialy until recently. Firstly, the formation and growth of the informal settlements with a focus on Egypt's capital, Cairo, is discussed. Further analyses are made regarding the hardships and poverty endured by its inhabitants using tangible evidence to illustrate specifics and everyday reality in some of Egypt's ashwaiyat. It shows that the informal areas are not homogenous and that they represent various living conditions. The purpose of this paper, aside from summarizing the development, is to potentially...