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From Bab al Bahr to Maspero

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, While working on a paper on the emerging movements of urban activism and protest against neoliberal urban development strategies in Eg...
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When do we get our Vertical Slums in Cairo?!

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Mini documentary on the icon of Johannesburg Ponte Tower. the world's tallest slum: poverty-ridden Venezuela's Tower of Davi...
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The Informal siege: on Peripherisation in Cairo

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A diagram showing the peripheral urbanization around the central region of greater Cairo The source of the base map is David Sim’s boo...
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BRT to save Cairo?

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What is the best way improve transportation to get people and goods moving in Cairo? Nick Hamilton poses this question wondering if is i...
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The Insurgent Barricade

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نقلا عن أخبار الشروق   ظهرت صور خرائط "جوجل إرث" تحويل منطقة وسط البلد إلى ثكنات عسكرية وتجمعات أمنية عسكرية بعد  .إقامة أكثر ...
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Cairo: the Divided City

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mohamed mahmoud in Cairo   The Second Wall Of freedom in Cairo   The 3rd Wall Of Freed...
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عمارة الحواجز...إلى متى؟

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Jersey barriers surround the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 10, 2002. بينما كنت أطالع مجموعة من الصور التى نشرتها فورن بوليسى Foreign P...
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sEE it c0ming!

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For anyone who saw the burning twin towers in Sarajevo, in the summer of 1992, which were attacked by terrorists bent on undermining the mo...
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! الثورة وقانون الإفساد

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Massive informal infill development between the villages of Saft al-Laban and Kafr al-Taharmus: 1977-2000. Note that the irrigation syst...
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rE-gEnErating Slums!

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These days a lot of initiatives are beginning to emerge in Egypt especially after the 25th Jan revolution with the aim of "developing ...
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cItIes 0n the m0ve

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Megacities on the move - Sprawl-ville from Forum for the Future on Vimeo . According to David Sims in Understanding Cairo  there are r...
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rEmEmbEr imbAbA

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" but aren't squatters the enemy of the civil society? "  Robert Neuwirth  was asked about his experience in the squatter comm...
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n0 fact0RIES...n0 w0rRIES !

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 a view towards the bosphrus from a Gecekondu called Kazim Karabekir in Sariyer, Istanbul Inspired by Timothy Mitchell's article tit...
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Demolition ....can't happen here!

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The photo above is for Ayazma, a geçekondu or an informal neighborhood founded by migrants to Istanbul around 1980s. In the 2002s the la...
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In search for the missing level

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In Egypt the lack of democracy in the local governance level and refusal to decentralize municipal governance, deepens the gap bet...
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The people from the barrio built the city twice: during the day we built the houses of the well-off. At night and at weekends, with solidarity, we built our own homes, our barrio.

　　—Andrés Antillano, resident of Caracas, April 15, 2004