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  • The Desert Tower
    Aerial view of the Ka'ba and what is so called Abraj AlBaitA-City: Sector 1576N (Aerial), 1986 by Lebbeus Woods Taken from an exhibition held at the Friedman Benda gallery in New York earlier this year, the drawings show the dystopian architectural landscapes of Woods’ imagination, including the Centricity and A-City projects that explore the political […]
  • The Informal siege: on Peripherisation in Cairo
    A diagram showing the peripheral urbanization around the central region of greater CairoThe source of the base map is David Sim’s book Understanding Cairo: A City out of Controlعملية التحضر في مدن دول العالم النامي عادة ما يكون غير مخطط بما فيه الكفاية. تشتهر هذه المدن بالنمو العمراني السريع والعشوائي. مما يميز هذا النمو تركزه علي أطراف المدينة في صورة تجمعا […]
  • Democracy Suspended
    Yasar Adanali's presentation on democratic & urban transformation in the Middle East and Turkey at the Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design Conference, Stuttgart, Germany (December 2011)
  • From Change Control to Adaptation
    Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are non-linear, self-organizing systems that have the ability to adapt to changing conditions through changing the rules that organize the random autonomous interactions between agents in the environment. This adaptation takes place through gradual gained experience that is reflected in the agent’s behavior. Interacting agents […]
  • Balconies: an object of occupation
    The opening scene of Kamal Aljafari’s film Port of Memory (2009) starts "with a long tracking shot of a grand, decaying house at twilight. The camera lingers on the skin of this structure that bears traces of other times and previous inhabitations. The footage feels like a memorial for a building that may not live much longer: we see a floorboard of wha […]

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