Cairo’s Vanishing Free Spaces ...Egypt

There was a time when public space in Cairo meant more than just physical access. It meant watching kids fly kites on the corniche, sharing tea in a quiet garden in Zamalek, or catching a breeze on a bench at the International Park in Nasr City.  Today, those same benches are often fenced off, paved over, or priced out. In a city of 23 million, where can the public still be public? From the once-lively Nile Corniche now broken up by cafés with cover charges, to gated promenades and walkways lined with security guards, Cairo’s public spaces are no longer for the public at large.  While parks, streets, and gardens still exist, they are limited in number, and those that remain have lost much of their soul as places of belonging, equality, and shared visibility. What is being lost is not just physical access to space, but the right to participate in the city’s life, regardless of income, background, or class. Cairo’s Divided Urban Landscape Across Cairo, entire neighborhoods operate as self-contained urban bubbles, shaped by who controls them, and who is excluded from them. Urban theorists refer to these…

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