Rebuilding Khartoum: What Kind of City Should Emerge from the Ruins?
The confluence of the Niles — Khartoum's founding geography and its future asset Khartoum was not a beautiful city. Decades of under-investment, uncontrolled sprawl, and governance failures had produced a capital with inadequate water, intermittent power, congested roads, inadequate sewerage, and housing that lagged far behind population growth. The urban planning studies conducted before the war documented these problems in detail. Then the war came, and made everything worse by an order of magnitude. ...