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...
View ArticleUnderstanding (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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleLessons 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?
View ArticleFrom 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?...
View ArticleHow 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.
View ArticleTrash 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.
View ArticleTrash Fantastic: Communication Design and Sustainable Waste Management
The perfect trash can needs more than product design - communications design comes into it too.
View ArticleHeroes 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.
View ArticlePlay! 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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