{"id":2186,"date":"2017-09-03T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/2017\/09\/housing-cairo-the-informal-response-and-cairos-desert-cities-2\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T13:23:04","slug":"housing-cairo-the-informal-response-and-cairos-desert-cities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/2017\/09\/housing-cairo-the-informal-response-and-cairos-desert-cities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abHousing Cairo: The (Informal) Response\u00bb and \u00abCairo\u2019s Desert Cities\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 November 2017 (TBC) |\u00a0Book Launch and Exhibition<br \/>\nAmerican University in Cairo and Art-el-Lewa, Egypt.<br \/>\nEdited by Marc Ang\u00e9lil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes\u00a0in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER\u00a0(Ruby Press, Berlin),<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Focused on urban development of the Egyptian capital, the\u00a0MAS Urban Design explored the so-called informal districts\u00a0of Cairo with the publication Housing Cairo: The (Informal)\u00a0Response (Best Architecture Book DAM 2016). Approximately\u00a060 percent of the population of Africa\u2019s biggest city lives in socalled\u00a0informal housing, typically five-to-ten-story concreteand-\u00a0brick-infill structures built without permits in the desert\u00a0or on former agricultural land. As the book argues, Cairo\u2019s\u00a0informal response to housing needs is not a marginal phenomenon,\u00a0but rather an intelligent, optimized answer to planning\u00a0incapacities \u2013 an answer that architects and planners should\u00a0themselves be participating in.<\/p>\n<p><b>Organisation<\/b><br \/>\nInstitute for Urban Design<br \/>\nChair of Architecture and Urban Design, Marc Ang\u00e9lil<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"mailto:malterre@arch.ethz.ch\" target=\"_self\">Charlotte Malterre-Barthes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 November 2017 (TBC) | Book Launch and Exhibition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"departemente":[68,159,78],"newsletter_ausgabe":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","departemente-department-of-architecture-d-arch","departemente-prof-dr-marc-angelil-en","departemente-former-chairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"departemente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departemente?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter_ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmynsl.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter_ausgabe?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}