Links
Links to non-news articles, blogs and references. Continuously updated!
The Mosireen Collective (video citizen journalism often covering urban issues)
The Walls of Alexandria جدران مدينة متعبة
Archnet Digital Library: Cairo. an extensive list of 439 historic and contemporary buildings with images and descriptions.
Center for Documentation of Cultural&Natural Heritage: Architectural and Urban Heritage.
CEDEJ- Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridiques et Sociales
PDP- The Participatory Development Programme in Urban Areas
ECHR- Egyptian Center for Housing Rights
UN Habitat: Strategic Urban Development Plan for Greater Cairo Region
ETH Basel | Cairo Studio: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron focused their Fall 2010 studio on investigating Cairo’s urbanity. Click here for the studio’s Atlas and Student Work.
Aga Khan Foundation: The Expanding Metropolis: Coping with the Urban Growth of Cairo, 1985 (pdf)
Aga Khan Foundation: The Changing Pattern of Housing in Egypt (pdf)
Cairo From Below: Cairo 2050
ِEgypt Independent Urban Planning Series
ِEgypt Independent Egypt’s Museums Series
Mashahhah News | Cairo
Amnesty International “Egypt:We are not dirt” report
World Bank Urban Transport Strategy for Cairo
Selected Cairo Architecture Bibliography
Cairo Public Space:
Al Masry Al Youm: Reuniting Cairo and its residence through a better use of public space
Ahram Online: On Cairo’s urban space wars
Al-Ahram: Missing Public Space
New York Times: Penned-In Egyptians Find Peace in City’s Din
This is a Public Space: Cairo 2010: After Kefaya
Project for Public Spaces: Public Space Powered Democracy
Cultural Spaces in Cairo:
Makan, Egyptian Center for Culture and Art
Darb 1718, Egyptian Contemporary Art and Culture
Megawra- An architectural hub based in Cairo
General links:
Al Rawi- Egypt’s Heritage Review
Zawia- Periodical publication and online forum on design, architecture and urbanism
Naoum Shebib architect (1915-1985)
