Luxor

This book searches for alternative narratives of urban planning and design for Luxor. Within an in-depth analysis of Luxor, it presents a theoretical and analytical framework developed around the historical places alongside the current settlements that host the daily activities in the city. The critical thinking for some project that implanted by ArchPlan with the complexity and contradictions of the contemporary urban planning practice-articulated as a multifaceted civic tackle instrumental to regimes of security and control. This work explores the implemented framework as a potential antidote to the sacred production of the recombinant city. The act of cursing the urban realm of 'recombinant urbanism' reaches through the lens of a planning research initiative in a squatter-occupied space. The description that emerges from displayed projects here inspired action plans to other places that have similar challenges. In the points to an alternative practice, our contribution here can be read as a site of resistance in reclaiming the cooperation of the relationship between people and place those open new directions in multidisciplinarity.

Autorentext

Ayman Ashour is a full professor of urban planning in Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo. Recently, he acts as deputy minister of the Egyptian Higher Education and Scientific Research. For more than twenty-five years, he is the director-in-chief and founder of ArchPlan Firm.