Category: On Well-being

Al-Azhar Park, 2005, Aga Khan Trust for Culture’s Historic Cities Programme

Originally the large dump-full land lot, in the east quarter of the heart Cairo was used as a municipal garbage dump for almost half a millennia. The space that was to be transformed into today’s Azhar Park needed a 80,000 truckload of garbage and debris to be removed before its development and the restoration of its neighboring and buried ancient and architectural heritages.

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