Michael Slackman of the New York Times pens a nice piece about public spaces in Cairo. Cairo is a city with a lot of people, a lot of tightly packed houses and buildings, a lot of traffic — and very little open space. There are some parks, but they tend to be fenced off and [...]
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The story of Al-Azhar Park in Cairo, Egypt offers an interesting case study into how improving quality of life through parks and green spaces can lead to positive impacts in cultural and community development. Back in the mid-1990s, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture started construction on turning a derelict space in the middle of [...]
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