We are constantly campaigning to bring back the "street" as an element of urban design. Cities and towns in times past have arranged...

There is nothing exceptional about the architecture, yet there is something about the soul of this street in Nuremberg that is just...

When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...

Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...

Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...

Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...

Date: January 13, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million,...

There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...

Date: January 5, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for...

This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...

"BLUE and other shapes 2" is a book that really makes you think about how we live in cities. As the title implies, the book is the...

How far do you want to walk to your favourite café? Can your kids walk to school safely, without the need to be driven? Can you walk or...