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EPISODE · Sep 21, 2023 · 29 MIN

The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead

from World in Progress · host DW

Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officials or the people who need a place to live? These are the big questions behind a controversial project that might lead to the destruction of Cairo’s necropolis, also known as the City of the Dead. Plus, can adding streets transform slums? Anni Beukes of the Million Neighborhood Initiative weighs in.

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