A combination of shipping containers, locally manufactured bricks lightweight steel and corrugated iron sheets are some of the strategic #sustainable interventions at the Legson Kayira Community Center and Primary School...Read more https://t.co/ftCwxodfwB
What an exciting time for the city of #LasAnod! A beautiful new library w/ a technology centre for children is being built in 2019 designed by the amazing @omar_degan
So proud of the work @givetolearnfdn is doing for the people of #Sool region. #GivingTuesday#GrowthMindset
.@jlmissika: In #Paris we are abandoning concrete. #AddisAbaba seems to be going in the opposite direction despite having a rich local understanding of using sustainable building materials. Why?
Rahul Mehrotra: Planning needs to imagine 'informal' technologies fit.
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“The LRT was built on a capacity operation that we never had, on a capacity of infrastructure development that we never had and a capacity of electricity provision that we don’t have” - Deputy Mayor Solomon Kidane. #UrbanAge@LSECities
Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu (@EiABC_): The debate in #AddisAbaba is mostly between expert-driven formal #planning and user-driven informal planning. Both are important.
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.@SongweVera: it takes 15min to the airport in #AddisAbaba, but two hours in #London and #Seoul. Global connectivity matters.
Flight patterns show dramatic growth between #Africa's #cities (https://t.co/Pex0mQxUGe)
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Wall of Knowledge / Tarik Zoubdi Architects
"Wall of knowledge" is a construction project of a middle school in the city of El Jadida (100 km south of Casablanca). The school was built for the OCP employees' children... Read more https://t.co/XJ9hEvoSwq