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Housing Cairo - the informal response, ETH Zurich, MAS Urban Design ; edited by Marc Angelil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes ; in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER

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Housing Cairo - the informal response

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ETH Zurich, MAS Urban Design ; edited by Marc Angelil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes ; in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER

Home to 20 million people and still growing, Greater Cairo mirrors the global phenomenon of unplanned urban growth. Approximately 60 percent of the population of Africa's biggest city lives in so-called informal housing, typically five-to-ten-story concrete-and-brick-infill structures built without permits in the desert or on former agricultural land. The book 'Housing Cairo. The Informal Response' illuminates the architecture of informality and its mechanisms of production through a series of theoretical essays and architectural design proposals. Central to the project is a re-examination of the concept of "informality" itself and its often negative connotations. As the book argues, Cairo's informal response to housing needs is not a marginal phenomenon, but rather an intelligent, optimized answer to planning incapacities - an answer that architects and planners should themselves be participating in

Housing Cairo : the informal response / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes -- Built informality in Cairo : an anti-glossary -- Desert cpital / Greg Dimitriadis, Dionysia Kouniaki -- "Affordable houses" / Bernardo M. Falcao, Patrick Abou Khalil -- Delusional Cairo / Alice Merche, Stamatina Lamprou -- Sub-dividing Egypt / Ameya Joshi, Francesco Tonarelli -- A new vernacular / Maria Kouvari, Heechul Jung -- Snapshots of construction / Daniel Ostrowski, Katharina Zerlauth -- On the intelligence of informal construction / Christine Fischer, Shinji Terada -- War on informatlity / Zoi Alexandropoulou, Marilena Fotopoulou -- Just another neighborhood -- A story of construction / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes -- Five typologies -- Seven urban design projects for Ard El-Lewa -- Inside out / Grigorios Dimitriadis, Bernado Menezes Falcao, Shinji Terada -- Urban seeds / Christine Fisher, Maria Eleni Fotopoulou, Katharina Zerlauth -- A gift / Maria Kouvari, Elisavet Papadopoulou -- The brick, the house, the neighborhood / Zoi AlLexandropoulou, Foteini Vitou, Dimitra Zarri -- Solidary city / Dionysia Kouniaki, Alice Merche -- Species of spaces / Ameya Joshi, Stamatina Lamprou, Francesco Tonnarelli -- The right to urbanity / Patrick Abou Khalil, Heechul Jung, Daniel Ostrowski -- An introduction to informal housing in Cairo / Sarah Sabry -- The danger of romanticizing informality / Cluster Cairo -- Receding rurality / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes -- Form follows food / Marc Angelil, Cary Siress -- Informality : prescriptive measures? / David Sims -- Afterword : The informal response / Mohamed Elshahed

Housing Cairo - the response