urban design | The Walrus

An illustration of a colourful winter scene. Two people, one in a wheelchair and one with a walker, move along a path next to a skating rink while someone skates.

Will COVID-19 Change How We Think About Disability?

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 - by Aimee Louw

From prioritizing pedestrian spaces to proliferating online hangouts, the pandemic has made accessibility mainstream. Will it last?

November 2004 / World

Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Deborah Campbell

cairo— In Khan al-Khalili bazaar, near the two-hundred-year-old al-Fishawi café where the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz penned his magnificent sagas of Egyptian life, two tiny girls in ragged party dresses …