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Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-207-2026
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Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
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19 Mar 2026
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Declining red brick factories in Greater Cairo (Egypt): unveiling military-led urbanization through its productive peripheries

Corten Pérez-Houis

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This paper deals with Cairo's contemporary urbanization through one of its main building materials: red brick. Although the Egyptian capital has been expanding for the last few decades, the production of this building material is being challenged. The modernization policies implemented by al-Sisi's government have led to a technical standardization of red brick and an economic marginalization of its factories, with concrete block emerging as a competing material.
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