It’s quite easy to say that in college you write a lot.
With that in mind, it would be one huge undertaking to post all of my written work from four years of learning. So, instead I’m just going to post a handful as PDFs from some of my classes that I particularly like the most.
Cairo and Riyadh in the reproduction of culture and urban form.
“Hiding in some of the largest deserts in the world is the often varying and chaotic form of the Islamic city. Ranging from as far west a Marrakech to as far east as Islamabad, the Islamic city has made a stamp on the region it’s often nestled in. More specifically, the structure of the Islamic city in the Arabian Peninsula (Riyadh) and Northern Africa (Cairo) has resulted in differing urban forms which can be seen through differing embraces of colonialism and Islamic values…”
City Expanding to The Desert Horizon: Riyadh’s problem of explosive growth and urban sprawl.
“Riyadh’s explosive growth in the last hundred years bore fruit for the nation of Saudi Arabia. Some of it has been sweet, and others have been bitter, or still waiting to ripe. The rapid growth of the capital city has created problems of sustainable and equal growth. In the last fifteen years in particular, the Kingdom of Saud has much to facilitate the oil-based growth of its city…”