This map (Fig.1) shows a section of modern Cairo in 1946, developed from the 1860s onwards to the west of the historic city (founded 969 C.E.). The map focuses on the downtown area or roughly what came to be called Wist al-Balad—the middle-of-the-city (country?)—c..
Hazem Ziada
Hazem Ziada is an architect, urbanist, historian and educator. He received his PhD in Architecture from the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. He has taught in US and UK schools of architecture. Besides exploring pedagogical issues and the poetics of building systems and technologies in architecture, his main research focus probes the spatial morphology of political practices in various contexts: in early Soviet architecture, in congregational or assembly ritual and in Cairo’s urban history. Recent publications include:
- “Thus the Sadness of the Heron: Interpreting Aslan’s Imbaba”, Arab Studies Journal; November 2016.
- “To See (Like) a Crowd”, Architectural Histories 3(1): 13, 1–18.
- “What Brings them There? Reflections on the Persisting Symbolism of Cairo’s Taḥrīr Square”, Jadaliyya Cities , Apr 2, 2015.
- “Undulating Grounds, Undisciplined Bodies: The Soviet Rationalists and The Kinaesthesis of Revolutionary Crowds”, Journal of Architecture, Vol. 18 Number 4, Aug. 2013.