urban reflections

This site is an accompaniment to my other blog: Dubaization Both deal with urbanism, although in "dubaization" my focus is on the Middle East. In this blog the emphasis is more global and discusses issues that are of relevance to a wider audience. Also see my photography blog: YXE-Image WRITINGS. VIDEOS.PHOTOGRAPHS ON AND OF THE CITY

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The People of Italy II

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The People of Italy I

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FIND Fellow Yasser Elsheshtawy investigated the presence of interstitial sites, sometimes named terrain vague, that lie outside the gaze of planners and city officials, within Abu Dhabi’s Central Area. #FIND_Yasser #FIND_ADTree

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Talk at Columbia University’s Studio X, Amman “The City as Palimpsest.”

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”Egypt is the only nation-state in the Arab world; the rest are just tribes with flags.”[1] Thus declared Tahsin Bashir, well-known Egyptian diplomat, asserting the countries' supremacy. 

Full article

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Eloquent Empty Spaces

Empty Storefront. Beverly Hills, Calif.  2012

by Lynn Saville

A photographer captures glimpses of cityscapes in their rare moments of emptiness.

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How cities grow, slump and recover

from The Economist

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Multimedia Entry on Dubai

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'Mapping Dubai' in New York City

A multimedia section from “Mapping Dubai,” a research project undertaken by Yasser Elsheshtawy, is currently featured in the BMW Guggenheim Lab exhibition in New York. “Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends” is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim ...

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Dubai urban growth displayed at Guggenheim in New York

US exhibition includes UAEU project showing everyday life unfolding on a street corner

Link to Entry

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Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab

These videos were commissioned as part of Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from October 11, 2013 - Jan 5, 2014. Learn more at http://www.guggenheim.org/100urbantrends.

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Guggenheim Museum-NYC

Exhibition Entry. 2013.

  Link to Video on Guggenheim Museum YouTube Video Channel

Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab. Oct. 11-January 5, 2014. Organizer: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC

  The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a global project that offered free programs and projects about important urban challenges in cities around the world. Led by international, interdisciplinary Lab Teams — groups of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability — the Lab raised awareness of key urban topics, and continues to inspire an ongoing conversation online and through the projects it developed in cities.

  The show, which runs from October 11 to January 5, explores the major themes and ideas that emerged from the Lab during its travels to New York, Berlin, and Mumbai from 2011 to 2013.

  A video of one of my projects “Mapping Dubai” will be included and is also shown on the BMW Guggenheim Lab's Youtube Channel:

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Timelapse. Baniyas (aka Jamal Abd el Nasser) Square. Dubai.

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Horizontal-Vertical NYC

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Little Egypt

Little Egypt. Queens. NYC

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Call for papers: Built Environment, Journal. Special Issue: Urban Violence. If interested please send me an email.

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City interrupted: modernity and architecture in Nasser's post-1952 Cairo

Now available for free download