Aerial view of the Ka'ba and what is so called Abraj AlBait A-City: Sector 1576N (Aerial), 1986 by Lebbeus Woods Taken from a...
The Informal siege: on Peripherisation in Cairo
A diagram showing the peripheral urbanization around the central region of greater Cairo The source of the base map is David Sim’s boo...
Democracy Suspended
Yasar Adanali 's presentation on democratic & urban transformation in the Middle East and Turkey at the Integrated Urbanism a...
From Change Control to Adaptation
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are non-linear, self-organizing systems that have the ability to adapt to changing conditions through changi...
Balconies: an object of occupation
The opening scene of Kamal Aljafari’s film Port of Memory (2009) starts " with a long tracking shot of a grand, decaying house a...
BRT to save Cairo?
What is the best way improve transportation to get people and goods moving in Cairo? Nick Hamilton poses this question wondering if is i...
the struggle goes on
"What both the Greek and Egyptian elections show is that while elections matter and should not be ignored by socialists, they are onl...
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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
