File:Updated manifesto.jpg

At the beginning of the course I uploaded this Manifesto trying to show the Nile river in Cairo with the side banks which called: (Cornish) that I have a special experience to live in that city as a citizen for tow years and as an architect always I had to observe how this very important element in the city playing the role as natural element (River) in the same time it is a land mark and it is defining the roads next to the river for traffic and pedestrians and every time I was walking there I was looking to these crowded functions and utilities on the sides of the river and how people are dealing with it (using it)... actually the problems was not so clear for me but just I could feel that the environment getting worse causing pollution for air , water and sometime visual... Now after LED course I believe that the most important problem is that there is a lack of evolving the community in the planing and developing the area and these people living in the city and using this element every day have the right to be involved. I used the term Planning because this problem is not related to this time it is a problem with repetition from old time I mean that by time the city is developing and the river sides are developing but unfortunately this development is responding to economic and investments needs without taking in consideration the environment, demography or future needs so it is obvious that the decision makers do not have a chair for community on there table.