Think Commons | A City in Flux: New modes of urban intervention in Cairo since January 2011
Channel: Domenico Di Siena
Date: 13/06/2012

Special Session with a Special Guest: Omar Nagati

A breakdown of the security apparatus in Cairo in January 2011 has since generated new modes of informal urban interventions in public space that in both kind and measure would have been unimaginable prior to these events.

This presentation attempts to share some documentation of these examples of a city in flux, experiencing rapid change and promising yet unpredictable future. It also offers a tentative hypothesis of alternative modes of urban development "from below," whereby individuals and communities take the initiatives, then invite the state—that is increasingly weak and incapacitated—to take part in the formalization and legitimization process