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The DNA of Cities

The built environment is a product of socio-economic, cultural, and political forces. Every urban system has its own 'genetic code', expressed in architectural and spatial forms that reflect a...

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Understanding (and Measuring) Walkability in Cairo

The website Walk Score measures the walkability of any place based on distance to amenities, with points given based on walking distance. So how walkable is Cairo, and how did it get to this point? We...

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Two Very Different Visions for Floating Cities

Many architects have come up with innovative concepts of future utopian cities, most of which are related to smart, sustainable, and bio-tech innovation. These two ideas present a very different...

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Lessons From Cairo: How Small Scale Urban Initiatives can Improve a City

Imagine a city as an urban envelope made up of floors, walls, roofs, and dwellers. How can these simple components, with limited capacity, make change?

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From Seoul to Cairo: Public Space Projects and the Socially Sustainable City

Cairo is a collection of separated socio-spatial patterns, with insufficient public realm to bring together different community groups. So how can we integrate different groups with one another?...

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How Playgrounds Can Change the Lives of Syrian Refugee Children

Read on to learn how CatalyticAction is changing Syrian children's life in Lebanese refugee camps.

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Trash Fantastic: Learning from Cities Across the Globe to Create the Best...

How to design the perfect trash can? Cities across the globe have different ideas.

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Trash Fantastic: Communication Design and Sustainable Waste Management

The perfect trash can needs more than product design - communications design comes into it too.

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Heroes of My City: The Afghan Art Collective Using Street Art to Highlight...

Kabir Mokamel, a Graphic designer who spent part of his life in Australia, returned to Kabul with the intention of cultivating a return to the pre-conflict values he remembers before fleeing war.

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Play! A Bottom-Up Design Process in Lebanon

Joana Dabaj updates us on their project to enhance public spaces in refugee camps in Lebanon.

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