Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have ...

This desert of rubble was photographed in 2014. It’s the place where I grew up, lived with my family, played with the kids in the neighbo...

Long gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify themse...

Situated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably one of the most attractive urban locations in th...

By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many buildings built illegally,...

Berlin is one of the most dynamic of world cities. The core is a high density urban environment. It is formed into city blocks and the st...

By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million, so there is less and les...

By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for the first time after a ...

Renewing our cities can take really many forms. Old buildings can be torn down and some of the more outstanding ones can be rebuilt. Whol...

Rethinking urban spaces has been the focus of UrbanLab - an urban development initiative undertaken by 8 Danish municipalities - during t...

By Richard Herriott There is commonly a failure among architects and planners to accept that the built environment we live in now is infe...

A walk around the newest neighbourhood of Aarhus, the second biggest city of Denmark, offers not only award winning architectural sights ...

A success of considerable value was experienced in Palazzo delle Stelline. The exhibition entitled Beyond Art opened on the 20th of Novem...

The societies which thrive best are the ones where the strengths of the past are brought together with the growth of the new parts of the...

Throughout Europe, the 60's and the 70's saw a rapid expansion of residential building. In Scandinavia as in most other countries, some o...