mohamed mahmoud in Cairo The Second Wall Of freedom in Cairo The 3rd Wall Of Freed...
The destruction of Memory
The levelling of buildings and cities has always been an inevitable part of conducting hostilities and has worsened as weaponry has be...
do we need to invent our Casbah?!
Algier’s Casbah New York’s Liberty Square near Ground Zero and Wall Street Top: Bab al-Wazir histor...
A citizen of liberty square
Just like for the recent Egyptian Revolution, the moment of liberation is not so much the achievement (and therefore the termination)...
عمارة الحواجز...إلى متى؟
Jersey barriers surround the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 10, 2002. بينما كنت أطالع مجموعة من الصور التى نشرتها فورن بوليسى Foreign P...
sEE it c0ming!
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...
!ثمانية
القوات السورية تقتل ثمانية والمحتجون مبتهجون بما حدث في ليبيا ارتفاع حصيلة قتلى غزة في الـ 24 ساعة الماضية إلى 8 اشخاص سبحــ...
قل هو الرئيس
لفت نظرى مشهد تبديل صورة محمد حسنى مبارك بعد خلعه و إجباره على التخلى عن منصبه بإطار يحتوى على لفظ الجلالة الله فتذكرت مقولة للمهندس فاضل...
! الثورة وقانون الإفساد
Massive informal infill development between the villages of Saft al-Laban and Kafr al-Taharmus: 1977-2000. Note that the irrigation syst...
TAksIm aL-TAhrIr
According to his recent presentation, the Turkish PM is planning to pedestrianize Taksim Square , remove the bus stops,...
INF0RMAL ReVOLUTI0NARY MeDIA
Spanish protestors appropriate an advertisment billboard in Madrid, Spain during the Spanish Revolution 2011 note that sign in Arabic ...
inf0rmal rEv0lutionary pArliAment
Puerta del Sol- Madrid - Spain -May 2011 As seen above, in Madrid's very central Plaza del Sol, the people of Spain have camped ...
History repeats itself
Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo . Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot work...
rE-gEnErating Slums!
These days a lot of initiatives are beginning to emerge in Egypt especially after the 25th Jan revolution with the aim of "developing ...
cItIes 0n the m0ve
Megacities on the move - Sprawl-ville from Forum for the Future on Vimeo . According to David Sims in Understanding Cairo there are r...
rEmEmbEr imbAbA
Cairo |
Civil disobedience |
Civil Society |
Imbaba |
Informal sector |
Istanbul |
Mumbai |
Squatters
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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...
n0 fact0RIES...n0 w0rRIES !
Cairo |
Demolition |
Gated Communities |
Informal sector |
Istanbul |
migration |
Neo-liberalism |
neoliberal economy |
Privatization |
Urban Renewal
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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...
Demolition ....can't happen here!
Cairo |
Demolition |
Forced Eviction |
Informal sector |
Istanbul |
Resilience |
Urban Development |
Urban Struggle |
Urban Transformation
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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...
In search for the missing level
administration system |
Cairo |
centralization |
democracy |
global world city |
governance |
Istanbul |
Municipality |
Neighborhood Organization |
Self Organization |
top down planning
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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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