#planting trees
Cairo’s streets, once crowded with corner cafés, kiosks, and the ebb and flow of pedestrians, are giving way to sweeping change. In some neighborhoods in Downtown Cairo and Heliopolis, historic streets have been replaced by overpasses and widened roads. A surge of flyovers has turned walkable streets into car corridors, erasing green spaces, and pushing residents to the city’s margins, ultimately stripping away the pedestrian life that once gave the city its character. Since 2014, the Egyptian government has embarked…
