El-Mahalla, Egypt
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2015-06-12 by omny
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14341438001281845.jpg The photo is for my neighborhood, the visible thing here that it is an overcrowded area and it look like slums no open spaces no green areas no public services in the neighborhood just a building after building, the area looks unplanned narrow streets with tall buildings and no space for people to breath. The invisible thing is that this is not actually a slum all the construction processes in this neighborhood is happening under the nose of the city's council and the government and you will be shocked to know that it’s not easy to get an apartment in the neighborhood, as the apartment in there can cost 350.000 Egyptian pound which is not affordable for any one, so the place in the photo is not a slum and the cost of living is high, people replace their old medium height(5 floors max) to a high-rise buildings with 15 floors in 8 meters streets width that distorts the neighborhood, the right now action needed to contribute in saving the city is to put an end to this irresponsible constructions happening that can transform the entire city into a very big slum.