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SIGUS Attends Cairo Conference on Responsive Urbanism in Informal Areas

SIGUS Attends Cairo Conference on Responsive Urbanism in Informal Areas

Dr. Reinhard Goethert and Dr. Martin Scoppa – the SIGUS Post-Doc from the MIT-Singapore program (SUTD) – attended the UN Habitat 6th International Conference 'RESPONSIVE URBANISM IN INFORMAL AREAS', hosted by Cairo University, November 25-27.  The conference was held in preparation for the National Urban Forum in 2015.  Goethert made a keynote presentation on 'Capturing Process of Informal  Housing Development'.  Both Scoppa and Goethert held a workshop on "GATHERING DATA WHEN ACCESS IS DIFFICULT – EXPERIMENTING WITH GOOGLE EARTH AS SURROGATE."  The eight site and services/core house projects in Egypt of the 70s were the projects assessed.

Click here to see the workshop presentation.