Desert
From Ghost Towns To Forbidden Cities
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In less than a decade, a new urban world has been created at Cairo's gates. One thousand square kilometers outfitted with sewers and utilities, partially divided into plots and slightly inhabited, equal to twice the area of the Cairo urban agglomeration as it has existed for more than a millennium, which totaled some 13 million inhabitants in 2006, compared to little more than 600,000 in the public-housing cores of the new towns and the adjoining private housing projects. This paper is analysing those tremendous transformation