Excerpt translated via Google.
The Living Desert: Cairo’s urban planners are looking for ways out of poverty and overpopulation
Christian H. Meier – Enge, noise and traffic dominate Egypt’s capital for decades. The majority of the population now living in makeshift settlements on the outskirts. More and more rich flee Cairo in exclusive residential areas in the desert: Does the future belong to the city?
….At the same time spread in the city range from informal residential areas, while resulting in the desert exclusive satellite cities. Cairo is drifting apart – geographically and socially. Nearly two-thirds of Cairo now live in urban slums. But what is even a slum? “I do not care not whether something is called or slum,” says Kareem Ibrahim: “What counts is the standard of living. Sufficient housing, electricity, water, road access. “The architect works for the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a private aid organization that was founded by the leader of the Ismaili Muslims.
An almost heavenly Park
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