Urban Planning Lessons From Cairo (Yes, Cairo)

One of the most polluted cities in the world hatches a plan to improve the streets for pedestrians.

Ask anyone who's visited Cairo, and they'll tell you, "great place, love the history, adore the qahwas, hate
the cars." Cars are to Cairo what clouds are to London and bitchy
waiters to Paris -- nuisances so endemic to the urban culture, someone
ought to build them a monument.

That's about to change.
Cairo announced plans recently to expel cars from downtown as part of a
bigger scheme to...