New Article: Re-enterprising the unplanned urban areas of Greater Cairo

May 07, 2021

New Article: Re-enterprising the unplanned urban areas of Greater Cairo – a social innovation perspective.

Re-enterprising the unplanned urban areas of Greater Cairo, a social innovation perspective
May 2021, for Open House International https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-06-2020-0063

Katerina Nicolopoulou, Ashraf M. Salama, Sahar Attia, Christine Samy Habib, Donagh Horgan, Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil, Asser Bakhaty. Based on a research project in collaboration with Cairo University, funded by the Scottish Funding Council / University of Strathclyde: GCRF Pump Priming Re-Enterprising the 'Forgotten Villages of Greater Cairo'

This study aims to develop an innovative and comprehensive framework to address water related challenges faced by communities located in urban settlements in the area of Greater Cairo. It is commonly accepted that such global challenges that border issues of resilience, community development, social equity and inclusive growth, call for a collaboration of disciplines. Such collaboration allows for the identification of synergies in ways that can enlighten and enrich the space of potential solutions and create pathways towards robust solutions.

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).