EGYPT’S NEW PLANS FOR DECENTRALIZATION
Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...
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Thinking Urban
THE DEAD END OF CAIRO HOUSING
Date: January 13, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million,...
Frederick Rickmann
Moray Place in Edinburgh
There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...
Thinking Urban
WHEN IT RAINS IN CAIRO
Date: January 5, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for...
Frederick Rickmann
"Hifi is the male equivalent of anti-wrinkle cream"
The quotation marks in the title are because I have to admit that I stole the line from an article by Jonathan Margolis in the Guardian....
Frederick Rickmann
How many new towns have that?
This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...
Frederick Rickmann
Gamla Stan, Stockholm
You walk down the street. It's a cloudless day. The air is crisp. The sky is so blue that it is bordering on indigo. Then you get that...
Frederick Rickmann
Colour in Taipei
Liberty Square in Taipei is quintessentially oriental. Also quintessentially euphemistic. The monumental Democracy Stairway on the right...
Frederick Rickmann
BRUTAL CONCRETE AND GREEN TEA
Date: June 3, 2015 By Frederick Rickmann Renewing our cities can take really many forms. Old buildings can be torn down and some of the...
Frederick Rickmann
This used to be one of the main streets in Bangkok.
A bit too heavy-handed for a light transport system. Today we have a generation of architects that have seen their own work torn down...
Frederick Rickmann
CREATING TOMORROW'S URBAN SPACES THROUGH CULTURE AND ART
Date: April 17, 2015 Rethinking urban spaces has been the focus of UrbanLab - an urban development initiative undertaken by 8 Danish...
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Blå er vejen til grøn
"BLUE and other shapes 2" er en bog, der virkelig får dig til at tænke over, hvordan vi bor i byer. Som titlen antyder, er bogen den...
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