Urban Planning and GovernanceArchitecture, Modernity, and DesignWater Governance and Infrastructure

Hisham Abusaada, Abeer Elshater

2026.1.2Journal of Urbanism

DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2025.2607112

Abstract

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism”. (Benjamin 1968, p. 256).Between 1853 and 1870, under Napoleon III’s direction, Baron Haussmann undertoo...

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ABUSAADA, Hisham; ELSHATER, Abeer. Dragon urbanism: Virtue through destruction. Journal of Urbanism, 2026: 1–7.