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Claiming the Place; Informal Placemaking, Power and Territorial Identity in Heliopolis, Cairo

Sadek Saad

Journal of Art and Design 1(1); 10.31586/jad.2022.246 - February 24, 2022

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Abstract

The bottom-up or informal placemaking process is “illegal”, practised only by the “poor” and “unintellectual” classes. The author argues that various classes practise informal placemaking regardless o... Read more

Figure 1. Heliopolis Traditional Character, the author; 1992.

Figure 2. An Inaccessible Public Garden, the author; 2019.

Figure 3. A Neglected Green-Island, the author; 2010.

Figure 4. Sayyed Zakaria Street’s Architectural Monotony, the author; 2021.

Figure 5. Creating Social Privacy, the author; 2019

Figure 6. Informal Territorial Borderlines, the author; 2019

Figure 7. Reserving Spots for Private Parking, the author; 2019

Figure 8. Occupying the Set-back and the Pavement with the Structure, Permanente Formal Territorial Borderlines; A Police Station, the author; 2021

Figure 9. Reserving Parking Areas for a Private Company, before Working Hours (at 6 AM), the author; 2021

Figure 10. Reserving Parking Areas for a Private Company, during Working Hours (at 11 AM), the author; 2021

Figure 11. Influential Institution’s Semi-permanent Territorial Borderlines, the author; 2019

Figure 12. The Middle Island in Sayyed Zakaria Street Second Sector, the author; 2019

Figure 13. Providing Shade and Protecting Social Privacy, the author; 2019

Figure 14. Pots as Bollards, the author; 2019

Figure 15. Car Tiers as Bollards, the author; 2019

Figure 16. Pavement Finishing, the author; 2019

Figure 17. Street Vendors in <i>El-Arab</i> Housing, the author; 2010

Figure 18. Entertainment and Social Gathering by a Coffee Shop in El-Arab Housing, the author; 2010

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