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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The Parks Dept. in Johannesburg, South Africa created a new five acre park from an illegal dumping ground in Soweto, the park poor half of the city in….guess how long? One day. After being inspired by the show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, where homes are rapidly transformed in 7 days, the the city’s parks director [...]
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Interesting article here on parks and public spaces in Abu Dhabi, a city of almost one million in the United Arab Emirates. Basically, the city was designed around the car, and now the most popular public spaces are not the parks but so-called “leftover spaces” that appear where people are but weren’t really meant to [...]
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