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

    enSeptember 21, 2023
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    About this Episode

    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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