The Extractive Sector: Real Estate Urbanism in Greater Cairo and its Toll on the Environment

A Global Trend Climate change compounds existing vulnerabilities that are produced by a continual interaction of political, economic and social processes (Hassanain and Martina 2021). The forces of capital constantly reconfigure city spaces to maximize the value of assets and resources. The conversion of city spaces into separate archipelagos for investment – rather than parts of a social and natural ecosystem – forces the city’s users to accept the production of an urbanization surplus, whic..