Sentence examples for desert development from inspiring English sources
Now his only regular mosque appearances take place 25 miles outside the city, in a new desert development called Sixth of October City.
At a second conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in July, member states accepted an offer from the United Arab Emirates to house the agency's future headquarters in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi's zero-carbon, zero-waste desert development project.
Within the next five years, the two biggest hubs of desert development – 6th October City to the west and New Cairo to the east – are each set to house up to 5 million people.
The Alexandria-Cairo desert highway is one of Egypt's best roads; it has relieved pressure on the agricultural route through the delta region as well as encouraging desert development.
These divisions play out on television sets across the sprawling desert developments here, where political ads start with the 4 a.m.
Madinaty is just one of a rash of desert developments taking shape on Cairo's sandy fringes, where signature Greg Norman golf courses sprout from some of the most arid land imaginable and Zaha Hadid-designed office blocks are winched skyward at addresses that can be expressed only in kilometre distance-markers.
David Sims, a Cairo-based urban planner, has spent years cataloguing the failures of Egypt's satellite cities, culminating in last week's well-timed publication of his latest book – Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?
In Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?, ironically released the week of Madbouly's speech, urban planner David Sims outlines the history of at least 22 attempts in the modern nation to lure Egyptians out of the cities and into purpose-built suburbs.
Much of the country is mountain or desert, unusable for development.
Here, emerging from the desert, is a development of 130 homes with walls built from used tyres full of rammed earth, empty glass bottles and cans and recycled materials.
Likewise, we should devote resources to the young people we know who live in conditions that present the highest risk for them to be involved in the system – where they are exposed to trauma, have failing schools and youth development deserts.
